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COKEMATODUS SHIHANUS, sp. 11. (Fig. 4.) 



rig. 4. 



919 



Coremaiodns skiraniis. 



Depth o£ body equal to length of head, 5 total length. Siiout 

 very broad, with steep, convex profile ; eye a little nearer gill- 

 opening than end of snout, its diameter 4^ times in length of 

 head, twice in interorbital width, and greater than depth of prae- 

 orbital ; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye ; cheeic 

 with 4 rows of scales below the eye ; opercle and interorbital region 

 scaleless ; limbs of prjEopercle forming a right angle. Gill-rakers 

 moderately long, 12 on lower part of anterior arch, last bifid. 

 Dorsal XVI 10 : spines increasing in length to the last, which is 

 |- length of head. Anal III 8 ; third spine longest, as long as but 

 thicker than middle dorsals. Caudal peduncle 1| as long as deep. 



