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Butis butis (Buchanan-Hamilton). ¢.y- 37 
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Head 2 3/4 to 2 7/8; depth 4 1/8 to 5 t/as DL.VI + 4, Oye 
or 1, 8, i; A. i, 8, 13 P.i, 18 or 19; large scales (not count- 
ing auxillary basal scales) 30 from gill-opening to caudal base 
and 5 more on latter; 10 or 11 scales transversely between soft 
dersal origin and anal origin; 35 to 50 predorsal scales; snout 
2 2/5 to 3 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 4 4/5 to 6 1/4; maxillary 
21/3 to 21/2; interorbital 3 7/8 to 4; head width 2 to 2 1/8 in 
its total length, snout with slight convex prominence forward, 
length 1 to 11/2 its width, Maxillary to first fifth or middle 
in eye; expansion 2 te 2 1/4 in eye, Teeth fine, in bands in jaws. 
Tongue slightly emarginate in front. Rakers 111 I-+6, lanceolate, 
short, longest half of filaments, which 11/2 in eye. Scales 
crowded forward, where fine, also on top of head; 11 scale rows in 
cheek to preopercle ridge; fine scales on head below and breast; 
15 to 15 striae on scales; apical denticles 45 45 to 55 55; 
circuli fine. Color in alcohol faded dull brown generally. Sides 
with 10 longitudinal dark brown lines. Pectoral base with blackish 
blotch little smaller than eye, above and below which slightly small- 
er white blotch, Soft dorsal and anal with alternate deep brown 
to whitish lines, ‘Spinous dorsal dusky. Length 90 to 127 mm, 
Three from Singapore, 
Asterropterix semipunctatus Ruppell, 
Head 3; depth 4 3/5; D. VI - I, 9, 13; A. I, 9, 13 scales 
28? from gill-opening to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 10 
scales transversely between soft dorsal and anal origins; snout 
