Cirrimeus ophiocephalus (Jenyns). ke 
Head 38; depth 4 1/3? D. XII, I, 22; a. I, 10; scales 
in 91 rows above and along lateral line to caudal base; 
about 60 tunular scales in lateral line to caudal base; 
11 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin; 9 to 
soft dorsal origin, 16 below to spinous anal origin; 58 pre- 
dorsal scales; snout 3 3/5 in head; eye 7; maxillary 3 1/6; 
interorbital 2 2/5. 
Body elongate, slender, well compressed; caudal peduncle 
well compressed, least depth 1 1/3 its length. Head rather 
robust, width 1¢ its length. sSnout obtuse, convex, length 
= its width. Eye small, hind pupil edge about first third 
in head, Mouth small, inferior, lower jaw much shorter 
than upper. Maxillary with end free, reaches about middle 
of eye; expansion 12 in eye. Teeth fine, conic, slender, 
little curved, in bands in jaws; upper teeth gradually large 
er externally; lower teeth more uniformly even, erect, small, 
fewer; no others, Snout front with 5 pores, upper 2 small 
ones simple, lower 5 larger and with tetaeed edges; chin 
with 3 close-set pores in a row and median short truncate 
barbel about 2/5 of eye. Nostrils rather large, hind one nearly 
S times size of front, which about midway in snout length, 
Interorbital broadly convex, with slight depression medially 
and each side. Occiput forms slight median keel to interor- 
bital; preopercle edge membranous, with weak denticles; 
suprascapula membranous, scaly. 
