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S. TA NW K A : 



Numerous specimens; the largest being 16 cm. long without 

 caudal. 



25. Zoarchias veneficus Jordan & Snyder. 



Six specimens ; the Largest being 7.2 cm. long as measured to tip 

 of caudal. 



The black bands and interspaces are nearly equal in breadth. 



28. Zoarchias neglectus, n. sp. 



Head about 7, height of body about 9 in total length measured 

 to tip of caudal ; eye 3§, interorbital 6, snout 4 in head. 1). XXII, 65. 

 A. I, 55- 



Body long, slender, compressed ; gradually sloping from behind 

 nape to tip of tail. Head moderate, pointed ; snout sharp, pointed ; 

 eye high up, upper rim of orbit forming a fleshy projection above level 

 of interorbital space ; interorbital convex. Mouth wide, slightly oblique ; 

 maxillary extending to a short distance beyond vertical through orbit, its 

 length equal to one half the head ; lips broad, thin, reflected outward ; 

 teeth in narrow bands on jaws, vomer and palatines. Gill-membranes 

 continuous, forming a broad fold across the insthmus ; gill-rakers on first 

 gill-arch about 4-f-io in number, minute, slender, pointed ; psendobran- 

 chiae large. Head without filaments or papillae ; nostrils with tubes. 

 Head naked; body with minute, circular, deeply-embedded scales; no 

 lateral line 



Dorsal inserted above the base of pectoral, the spines very low, 

 the length of each spine shorter than diameter of orbit ; anal inserted 

 beneath the origin of soft rays of dorsal ; both vertical fins confluent 

 with caudal. Pectoral longer than half the head, rounded postriorly. 

 No ven tra Is. 



Colour in formalin light brown ; whitish spots present here and 

 there, somewhat forming reticulation by confluence ; along the middle 

 parts a longitudinal series of short blackish lines. Dorsal and anal paler, 

 with whitish vertical bands, each band being lined with blackish line 



