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Height of body 5;2 times in total length (s. c.) or 19,2 °/o 

 of the latter; length of head 3,7 times in the same (27,1 °/o). 

 Width of body, measured at the base of the pectorals, 6-/3 times 

 in the body length (15 °/o), height of caudal peduncle 10 times 

 in the same (10 '^/0). Diameter of eye 3^4 in length of head, 

 0,9 in length of snout, 1,2 in interorbital space. Length of prae- 

 maxillary 3V4, width of praeopercle 4 times in length of head. 

 Praedorsal space 53%, distance between origin of first dorsal 

 fin and base of caudal 47%, praeanal space 71%, distance from 

 base of ventral fin to tip of snout 44%% of the body length 



Fig. 6. Craterocephalus capreoU Rend. 



(s. c). There are thirteen praedorsal scales. 9 gill-rakers on the 

 first branchial arch. 



The color of the two present specimens, which are preser- 

 ved in spirits, is a pale yellowish brown with small scattered 

 darker spots on the upper side. Along the middle of the side, 

 there runs a silvery band. 



Mr. J. R. Norman, who has kindly compared one of my 

 specimens with the type- specimens of C. pauciradiatus GiJuiTU 

 and G. stercus- muscariim Günth. in the Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 has informed me, that it is „certainly not identical with C. pau- 

 cdraditus", and that in the type of C. stercus- muscarum (to 

 which the new specimen evidently is closely related) there are 7 

 dorsal spines and 4^2 scales from the base of the pectoral fin 

 to the middle of the chest, whereas in the present new species 

 there are 5 dorsal spines and 3 Y2 scales from pectoral to chest. 



