[Journals], 1908-1912
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156 Tongue light slate blue - same color as throat. back tongue- has been lipped + is blunt + irregular - Albetta fleshies are dark slate blue, finely lived with lighter; there lines run from median line of ant. edge across fin vert quite reaching post edge - they curve away at the tips and are certain to darker color of the post edges of fleshies. Below the fleshies are very light blue-gray, almost white except at tips + post. [illegible] edge which is darker - while undersided lived with fine wavy dark lines running from wandlle of ant edge nearly across fin as an ripple surface. Palaeo-plates black with a bluish tinge - buills back + black throughout - Roof of mouth black, inside right ramus dark slate gray, 4.29 from sitea- bale - lamer half milk white - Bolton keying 19 finm east. Phaleral characters - Asymmetrical nervy 2-3 coiled white hairs on symphysis - scottery hairs on tip of head - thudness, phubber on tip of peduncle is 4.2 - 5 creases at bar of penis sheath - median crease from wart to flenis - Phubber 25-1/2th eye + fin - The shoulder blade does not lie horizontal to the axis of the body (see phlb.) the posterior end is larger than ant. end making the long axis of the scapula slightly oblique to that of the body. N.B (so in all the other Ophi- phleuotides). The folds between pectorals are 36 mil. in width - on throat 27 mil. just is