EMBIOTOCIDAL 
Cymatogaster aggregetus (Gibbons). 
Head & 1/8: depth 25/4; Ds. K, 21, 23. As TIT, 265° 43 
scales 41 in lateral line to caudel base; 5 scales above 
lateral line to spinous dorsal origin; to soft dorsal 
origin, 12 below to spinous anal origin; 13 predorsal 
scales; snout 3 4/5 in head; eye 3 4/5; maxillary 4; inter- 
Dital- 3 3/4, 
Body elongately ovoid, compressed; least Gepth of caudal 
ry) Ee J 9 Ci 3 
peduncle equals its length or 2% in head, Head width 2 1/8 
its length. Snout broad as long. hye Little elevated, center 
about first 2/5 in head. Maxillary not quite to eye; expan- 
sion 2 3/4 in eye, Teeth sinple, slightly curved, uniserial 
in jaws, Nostrils(damaged) close before eye, IUInterorbital 
convex, Preopercle edge entire. Rakers 10 18, lanceolate, 
1 1/4 in filaments and latter 1 3/4 in eye. Scales cycloid, 
in even rows parallel with lateral line above its course and 
tn horizontal rows below; scales smaller along body edges, 
especially on predorsal and breast and chest, scaly basal 
sheaths slong dorsals and anals; caudal base scaly; 4 rows 
of cheek scales; basal marginal striae 10 to 12; coarse cire- 
culi few; lateral Jine well arched, little closer to dorsal 
profile behind, slopes till median at caudal base; simple 
tibes rather well exposed. Fifth dorsal spine 2 1/3 in head; 
first dorsal ray 2 7/8; third anal spine 6; second anal ray 
3 2/5; pectoral 1 1/6; ventral 1 7/8. 
