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Depth 37i head 10 2/5* 5 1/8 to vent„ width 5 length; combined head 
and trunk 1 1/8 in tail. Snout 6 in head; eye 19» 3 3/5 in snout, 2 1/2 in 
interorbital; mouth cleft extends eye diameter behind eye, length 4 1/5 in head; 
teeth small, conic, pointed, uniserial in jaws and on vomer; interorbital 10, 
convex. Oill opening 11 1/2, low in lower half of body depth. 
Lateral line distinct. 
Dorsal origin begins behind anal apace equal to postrictal region of 
head. Vertical fins low feeble fold continuous around end of tail. 
Brown, under a lens shaded with darker dots over upper surface. Iris 
gray. Fins uniformly pale. Pharynx pale. 
Red Sea, East Indies, Philippines. Of all the species examined this 
has the most robust tail, little compressed, nearly wide as deep and all four 
sides more or less flattened. 
2933. Tubig Point, N. 49° E., 5 miles (N. 12° 12* 35'* B. I 240 2* 48"), be¬ 
tween Samar and Masbate, In 135 fathoms, March I 3 , 1909, Length 314 mm. 
