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DESCRIPTION or A NEW GOBIOID FISH 
FROM TUTICORIN. 
BY 
James Hornell, Director of Fisheries, Madras, and 
Henry W. Fowlp^r, of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
OF Philadelphia. 
Pleurosicya annandalei new species. 
Head 2| ; depth 4 ; D. 8, i ; A. I, 9, i ; P. 20 ; V. i, 4 ; 26 scales 
in median lateral series between suprascapula and caudal base ; 9 scales 
transversely between soft dorsal and anal origins ; 10 predorsal scales 
forward nearly to hind eye edge ; head width If in its length ; head 
depth at occiput If; snout 2f ; eye 3i ; maxillary 2 ; interorbital 4^ ; 
second dorsal spine 2^0 > second dorsal ray 2 ; second anal ray 3| ; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3 ; caudal fin If ; pectoral 1| ; length of ventral 
disk If. 
Body elongately ovoid in profile, deepest at spinous dorsal origin, well 
compressed, edges all convex. Caudal peduncle strongly compressed, its 
least depth half its length. 
Head large, well depressed, convex over surface ; upper profile slightly 
convex and little more inclined than lower ; cheeks swollen moderately. 
Snout depressed moderately, convex over surface, broadly obtuse as seen 
from above, length about ^ its width at front of eye. Eye moderate, hind 
edge of pupil about midway in length of head and upper edge slightly 
impinging on upper profile. Mouth large, moderately inclined, jaws about 
even. Maxillary reaches nearly opposite centre of eye. Lips thick, firm, 
fleshy. Teeth firmly conic, simple ; uniserial in upper jaw, forward each 
side several enlarged slightly or canine-like, of which posterior largest ; 
band of fine firm teeth in lower jaw, widest all around front of mandible 
and inside forward pair of canines, though much closer ; no teeth on palate. 
Tongue thick, fleshy, free and emarginate in front. Nostrils well sepa- 
rated, simple, pore-like, close before eye ; anterior falls little behind last 
third in snout ; posterior close to front eye edge. Interorbital very 
slightly concave. 
Gill-opening forward opposite hind eye edge, deeply incised over wide 
isthmus, from which free or with only narrow fold anteriorly. Gill-rakers 
2-1-6 short rounded tubercles, greatly less than gill-filaments, which are 
about length of eye. Branchiostegals o, with third quite divergent from 
fourth and fifth, these closely shielded along opercular apparatus. 
Scales large, firmly adherent, in even longitudinal rows on trunk ; absent 
from most of head, though above extend forward to each eye, leaving 
median triangular post-interorbital region and line of demarcation to 
occiput, scales not passing over ; breast, pectoral base and fins naked, 
except slight area on caudal base ; 2 median conspicuous interorbital 
pores, also one behind each posterior nostril with series of papilhe extend- 
ing forward from each just above front nostril ; two large pores behind 
each eye, from hind pore row of papillte extends along upper edge of 
opercle ; row of papillm along front edge of opercle, with median inter- 
secting branch backward ; two close-set parallel rows of papilL'e along 
preopercle edge, below extending along lower face of each mandibular 
ramus ; from below front nostril row of papillae extends down along preorbi- 
tal edge and then back across cheek ; scales with 14 to 17 basal radiating 
striae ; apical denticles 35 to 38 and circuli rather coarse. 
