4” dea 
Cheilodaetylus variegatus Valenciennes, Vay 
Head 2 7/8 to 2 9/10; depth 2 3/5 to 2 7/8; D. XVII, 29; 
A. III, 9, 1 or 10; P. 11, 6%vii or Bf-wi; scales 54 to 56 
in lateral line to caudal base and 8 to 10 more on latter; 
tubes about 54 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 more on 
latter; 7 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 
6 or 7 to soft dorsal origin, 15 below to spinous anal origin; 
30 to 32 predorsal scales; snout 5 in head; eye 5; maxillary 
3 3/5 to 3 2/3; interorbital 4. 
Body elongately ovoid, compressed, deepest forward, back 
elevated; caudal peduncle about long as deep, least depth 33 
to 3 3/5 in head, Head width 2 1/10 to 21/8 its length, Snout 
conic, width 1 to 11/5 in its length. Eye elevated, hind edge 
midway in head. Mouth small, lower jaw included. Maxillary to 
nostrils; expansion 24 in eye. Lips thick, wide, tough, finely 
papillate. ands of fine conic teeth in jaws, narroWing behind; 
no others. Nostrils large, front one at last, fifth in snout, 
twice length of hind one, edge entire, ‘Jtnterorbital broadly 
convex or depressed. Ffreopercle and suprascapula entire, 
Rakers 7 or 8+15, lanceolate, 2 1/3 to 3 in filaments, 
which 1 to 1 1/8 in eye; pseudobranchiae large as gill-fila- 
ments. Scales firmly adherent, cycloid, exposures of each 
finely fugose; rows longitudinally parallel with lateral line; 
small scales in head, except naked muzzle; breast with very 
small scales, these extending medianly over chest to ventral 
origin, though scales otherwise in breast little largert than 
