. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 254 BULLETIN" 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Type locality.—Dodepo Island, Dutch East Indies. Depth 1 % to 1 Ys; head 4 to 41^, width 1 % to 1 %. Snout 1 % to 1 % in head; eye 3 to Z}/^, 1% to 2 in snout, 13^ to 1% in interorbital; teeth 20 to 22 in jaws, small, inconspicuous; maxillary 3% to 3^ in head; interorbital 2^4 to 2^/^, convexly elevated; preopercle flange and opercle with few coarse striae, inconspicuous, more numerous, though coarse on humeral arch. Gill rakers 4? + 14, very short flexible points. Scales large, broadly
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 254 BULLETIN" 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Type locality.—Dodepo Island, Dutch East Indies. Depth 1 % to 1 Ys; head 4 to 41^, width 1 % to 1 %. Snout 1 % to 1 % in head; eye 3 to Z}/^, 1% to 2 in snout, 13^ to 1% in interorbital; teeth 20 to 22 in jaws, small, inconspicuous; maxillary 3% to 3^ in head; interorbital 2^4 to 2^/^, convexly elevated; preopercle flange and opercle with few coarse striae, inconspicuous, more numerous, though coarse on humeral arch. Gill rakers 4? + 14, very short flexible points. Scales large, broadly ovate, with very fine numerous circuli; 33 or 34 weak apical denticles, 7 to 9 transverse series of basal elements, often as more or less distinct cusps. D. VI or VII, 27, i, last spine 1% to 1% in head, eighteenth ray 35^ to 4% in combined head and bod3^; A. Ill, 23, i or 24, i, third. Fig. 15.—Hepatus nubilus, new species spine \% to V/^ in head, sixteenth ray 1 to li/g; caudal deeply emarginate, lunate, 2^/^ to 2^^ in combined head and body; least depth of caudal peduncle 1^ to 1% in head; pectoral 33^ to 33^ in combined head and body; ventral 3^^ to 4; caudal spine 23^ to 2J^ in head. Largely dull dark brown with dusky over vertical fins and ventrals, pectorals with more brownish tinge. Iris brown. A996, A997, A1033, A1034. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. Novem- ber 20, 1909. Length 210 to 228 mm. Nearly black, shading to brown under scales, probably dark seal brown with slaty streaks in life, of which usually 2 to each scale row. On side of head and breast brown in form of spots in pale ground color, spots size of number 6 shot. No black shoulder blotch or black spots in axils of verticals. Fins nearly black. Dorsal with oblique bars extending upward and backward, best seen in reflected light. Oblique. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appeara
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