Gallvodon oviceps (Vselenciennes) "9 pat 7 ral ake 
Head 2 4/5 to 27/8; depth 2 3/4 to 3: 1/63; D. (Ix, 10,45 
A. IIIf, 9, i; scales 20 in upper section of lateral line, 3 
or 4 tn lower section t6 catdzilbasecand 2 more on latter; 
2 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 2 to 
soft dorsal origin, 6 below to spinous anal origin; 6 pre- 
dorsal scales; snout 2 3/5 to 3 1/8 in head; eye 4 1/8 to 
5 3/4; mouth 4 4/5; interorbital 2 7/8 to 3; head width 2 1/4, 
Srnout convex, about long as wide, Rakers about 15+23?, seti- 
form, about 3 in filaments, which 1 1/5 in eye. Scales with 
17 to £4, Color in alcohol largely dull brownish, little 
paler below, Head darker brown above down till level with 
lower eye lid and middle of opercle flap, Obscure broad pale 
band on back transversely, crossing sixth to eighth scales of 
lateral line, another crosses thirteenth and fourteenth scales 
and traces of third at base of caudal peduncle, Length 88 to 
142 mm, Samoa. We have also compared a Samoan example in the 
Academy 197 mm, long, 
256 shows 2 anal spines, while in all of 
af ‘ 
Gunther's figure 
ours there are distinctly 3, 
The 2 examples Fowler records as ocarus oviceps~o4 are 
referable to two distinct species, One 207 mm, long, undoubt - 
edly is ©. perspicillatus(Steindachner). Also it is very likely 
ZOO 
Journ, Mus, Godeffroy, vol. 16, heft 8,1909,p.312,P1, 152, 
Tis. A. 
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Proc ,Acad,Nat.Sci.Phila,,1900,p.512, 
