SCORF YP IDAR. 
Atypichthys strigatus (Clinther). 
Hdad 61/2 ta © 5.6; depth £)1/6 to 2 2/53 D. XE,15 4 
OF LG,1) Ase tity to, 2 or. 26, 33.75 to B82. rows of scales 
along lateral line to caudal base and 9 to 12 larger ones 
on latter; tubes 54 to 58 in lateral line to caudal base and 
4 or 5 more on latter; 14 scales above lateral line to spinous 
dorsal origin, 13 to soft dorsal origin, 24 below to spinous 
anal origin; 64 to 73 predorsal scales; snout 3 1/3 to 3 3/4 
in head; eye 2 2/3 to 3; maxillary 2 2/3 to 3 3/5; interorbital 
2 245.603: 2/6. - 
Body rather deeply fusiform, well compressed; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 1 to 1 1/5 its length, which 2 1/3 to 2 2/5 
in head, Head width 1 3/4 to 14/5 its length, Snout conic, 
length 2/3 to 4/5 its width. Eye large, deeply ellipsoid; hind 
pupil edge midway in head, slightly advanced in young. Mouth 
small, Jittle inclined, jaws about even, Maxillary slips below 
narrow preorbital; not quite to eye, or reaches front edge in 
young; expension 3 1/8 to 3 1/3 in eye. Teeth conic, simple, 
in- bands in jaws; several small, feeble, vomerine teeth; none 
elsewhere. Front nostril at last 2/5 in snout; hind one mid- 
way between front one end eye. Interorbital convex. Preorbitaly 
preopercle and suprascapular edges serrate, No opercular spine, 
Rakers 8116, lanceolate, 1/8 of filaments, which 2 1/6 
im eye. Scales finely ctenoid, crowded on head and over bases 
