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anal ray ; second ray of pectoral (in divided. Dorsal fin low, its insertion 

 nearly opposite front of anal. Head 4; depth 6. D. 11; A. 9; scales 

 6-52-3. Xorth Atlantic ; occasional on our coast. 



(TM'uv. iv V;il. Hist. N.-it. 1'oiss. xix, 101; said to liavr a black blotch on the upper 

 part of tlir lia.M- of tin- (ail, recalling the coloration of species of Saryus, a feature iiot 

 noticed 1>\ us on any of our tly ing-fish.) 



611. E. cxilicns Gineliu. 



Bluish above, silvery below, sides with five, broad, transverse bars; 

 pectorals and veutrals irregularly banded and blotched with blue and 

 black. Body very slender ; snout short, 1 length of head. Dorsal and 

 anal fins similar and opposite. Ventrals inserted slightly behind the 

 middle of the body; pectorals lj in length of body; second ray of pec- 

 torals extending beyond the membrane in a spine-like process. Veu- 

 trals 3 in length. Head C in total length with caudal. D. 12; A. 12. 

 Lat. 1. 48. (Goode.) Atlantic Ocean; a small species, possibly the 

 young of some other. 



(Gmeliu, Syst, Nat. i, 1400, 1788; Giinther, vi, 291 ; Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mua. v, 

 64.) 



18C. CFPSELURUS Swaiuson. 

 Bearded 



(Cypsilurus Swaiuson, Classification of Fishes, 1839, 296: typo Exococtus nuttalli Lo 

 Sueur.) 



This genus di tiers from Exocmtus in the presence of one or more bar- 

 bels or cutaneous appendages of delicate texture on the tip of the man- 

 dible. The species are all of small sixe, and it is possible that in some 

 of them these appendages are lost with age. (xutslus, a swift or swal- 



low ; </">//'/, tail.) 



612. C. fnr<:Unx (Mitch.) \\Viulan.l. 



llarhfls i', ribbon-like, usually little if any longer than the eye. Eye 

 large, narrower than the broadly, slightly corn-ax c, interocular space. 

 Adult nearly plain; young with three broad, black bands across the 

 belly in front of the \entrals; opereulum and pectorals marbled with 

 black: lower caudal lobe with three blackish cross bands; posterior 

 part >f ventral and lower part of anal black. Yentrals and pectorals 

 reaching past base of caudal ; ventrals inserted nearer the root of the 

 caudal than the Miout ; dorsal very high, hi-her than the body, the 

 longest rays not reaching the caudal. Anal not low. llead 4 in 



