ANNALS 



OF THE 



DURBAN MUSEUM 



(Vol. III.) 



I. — Three new Fishes from South Africa, 

 collected by Mr. H. W. Bell Marley, 



by 



C. Tate Regan, M.A., F.R.S. 



(Published with the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum). 



Ch.etodox marleyi, sp. nov. 



Form ovate : profile of head somewhat concave. Depth of body 

 If in the length, length of head 3^. Snout as long as diameter of 

 eve, which is 3 in length of head ; interorbital width 3^. 45 scales 

 in a longitudinal series, 7 from origin of dorsal to lateral line : scales 

 much larger anteriorly than posteriorly ; series on upper half of body 

 running obliquely upwards and backwards, forming an angle with the 

 nearly horizontal lower series; lateral line curved, running towards end 

 of soft dorsal. Dorsal XI 24 ; fourth and fifth spines h last -f length of 

 head ; soft fin rounded, with the sixth to tenth rays longest. Anal 

 III 19. Pectoral a little shorter than head. Caudal truncate. 

 Greyish, with a pearly spot on each scale below lateral line ; a 

 brownish median stripe from snout to interorbital region ; a brownish 

 band from in front of dorsal fin through eye to chest, a second from 

 third to sixth dorsal spines through base of pectoral to pelvics, a third 

 from an oval blackish spot which overlaps last spine and first three 



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