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of the Bay of Bengal. 
and the gills showing through the opercle as a bright pink 
blotch; the second dorsal and caudal fins beautifully pen- 
cilled in alternate, narrow, obliquely transverse stripes of 
black and white ; anal with a broad dark border ; ventrals 
blue-black. In spirit, the yellow cross bands almost entirely 
fade. 
Total length 4 to 5 inches. 
Hob. Vide Station 96. About 350 specimens of all sizes. 
Callionymus, L. 
12. Callionymus carebares , sp. n. (PL VIII. fig. 8.) 
Allied to C. Jcaianus^ Gthr., from the Arafura Sea. 
Head large; tissues delicate. 
B. 7. D. 4/9. A. 9. C. 12. P. 21. V. 1/5. 
The upcurved branchiostegal rays are prolonged con- 
siderably beyond the suboperculum, so that the extreme length 
of the head is three sevenths of the total without, and about 
one third with, the caudal. The height of the low cylin- 
drical body is one eighth of the first standard and much less 
than the height of the head. Eyes large, their major dia- 
meter being rather over one fourth of the extreme head- 
length and one fourth longer than the snout ; they are sepa- 
rated by a narrow shallow groove. 
Floor of the mouth darkly pigmented. 
Preopercular spine upcurved, very fine and acute ; its length 
is two thirds the long diameter of the eye ; its base is ad- 
vanced to form a forward-projecting sharp spine of consider- 
able length ; and on its upper border, close behind the angle 
of the preoperculum, are one or two rather procumbent 
spinelets. 
The gill -opening is not much smaller than the orbit and 
rather more on the flank than on the top of the head ; the 
branchial arches are slender and flexible, the gill-rakers 
almost rudimentary. 
The skin is loose and very thin. Lateral line single. The 
first dorsal fin is lower than the second, its flexible spines 
decreasing in length from before backwards ; the height of 
the second dorsal and of the anal is not quite twice the 
greatest body-height ; the length of the caudal is rather more 
than one fourth of the total ; the pectorals are rather shorter 
than the ventrals, which are as long as the postorbital portion 
of the head and reach just beyond the origin of the anal when 
laid back. 
