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and the body largely spotted and marbled with blackish brown ; dorsal, 

 caudal and anal rays brownish, their membranes pale brownish trans- 

 parent, minutely dotted with black ; ventrals whitish. Iris golden, 

 annular, rest bluish black. 



Right side. Brownish white ; opercle and abdominal cavity pale 

 bluish. 



Var. B 



Left side. Differs from Var. A by having 7 or 8 vertical, blackish 

 brown, distant bands not extending over the dorsal and anal ; head 

 and intervals with irregular blackish brown spots. 



D 100 or 102, 



C 10, V4, P0, Br. VI. 



A JT6 or _78, 

 186" or 190, 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Total length : 6 inch. 



Left side. The length of the head is 5 J in the total. The distance 

 from the very bluntly pointed muzzle to the upper eye is T \ of the 

 total length ; the point proceeding downwards from the muzzle barely 

 covers the symphysis of the lower jaw ; its length equals the distance 

 from the muzzle to the upper eye. Both eyes are excessively minute, 

 like points. The upper one is situated at the anterior third of the 

 head, opposite the middle of the upper lip. The lower is a little far- 

 ther back, immediately above the posterior third of the upper lip. 

 The distance between both is apparently two diameters. No nostril is 

 distinguishable. The left side of the lips is not papillular ; the right 

 completely hides the minute teeth. The greatest vertical diameter of 

 the body, in front of the anal, is 4f in the total length ; on it appear 

 31 to 33 series of scales. The latter are on the body comparatively 

 large, elongated oblong, with about 17 minute spines at the posterior 

 margin, and about 36 radiating lines on the radical portion. There are 

 about 81 on a straight line between the gill-opening and the caudal. 

 The lateral line with its ramifications, resembles that of P. bilineata. 

 The length of the pointed caudal is ^ of the head. The distance from 

 the first anal to the first ventral ray equals that between the muzzle 

 and the upper eye, which is nearly thrice that of these fins in P. bilu 



