midway between hind nostril end caudal base, fin 5/6 to 
anal. 
Color in alcohol: faded-gravish-brown above. Fough- 
ened cranium and snout brownish. Sides of head and under 
surface silvery-white. Iris pale brown, also barbels. 
Fins brownish, paler basally. Adipose fin with terminal 
portion largely blackish. Length 106 mm. Singapore. 
Galeichthys simonsi Starks. 
depth 6; D ; A | snout 3 in head; 
interorbital ¢ 
moderately compressed. Caudal 
peduncle well compressed, least depth 3 Lets length or 
4 1/3 in head. Head width 1 1/5 its length. Snout wide, de- 
length half its width. Eye center near first third 
eye 1£ in snout in profile. Maxillary about to eye 
Jaws with broad bands of fine pointed teeth and much 
er parallel bands as vomere-palatine, but not joined 
vomer. Maxillary barbel to pectoral origin, outer mental 
slightiy behind eye and inner mental to gill-opening or 
eye edge. Nostrils large, together, frenum at first third 
in snout. Interorbital elevated convexly, broadly depressed 
medially. Cranium rugose and long nerrow fontanal from op- 
posite hind part of eye to occiput. Gill-rekers 5 
eolate, about 2/5 of filaments which equal 
damaged. Dorsal origin nearly an eye-diam 
