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front, maxilla not reaching to hind margin of orbit, the upper 

 jaw equal to snout and eye combined and much more than one 

 half the length of head; the mandible equal to head without 

 snout, reaching to below hind margin of orbit; 15 or 16 large, 

 compressed, conical teeth in each side of upper jaw, and about 

 the same number of similar teeth in lower; eye large, more than 

 one fifth of length of head, nearly equal to interorbital space; 

 gill rakers 3-t-12, the longest one half as long as the eye. The 

 spinous dorsal originates a little farther back than the pec- 

 toral and nearly over the insertion of the ventral; the base of 

 the fin equals its distance from tip of snout; the second spine- 

 is the longest, one half as long as snout and eye combined; the 

 fin is shaped as in S. maculatus, the last spine being very 

 short. The interspace between the dorsals is about one third 

 the diameter of the eye. The second dorsal base is one half 

 as long as the head and equal to its longest ray; the last ray 

 is one half as long as the eye; the fin is followed by eight or 

 nine finlets; its upper margin, like that of the anal, is deeply 

 convex. The anal origin is under the middle of the second dor- 

 sal; the longest ray a little exceeds longest of dorsal; the last 

 ray one half the length of eye; the fin is followed by eight fin- 

 lets. The caudal keel is one third as long as the head; the 

 caudal fin is very deeply forked, the outer rays as long as the 

 head and the lobes narrow- at the base. The ventral origin is 

 midway between tip of snout and vent; the fin is two thirds 

 as long as the snout and extends to below the seventh spine 

 of the dorsal. The pectoral is broad at the base, falcate, its 

 length equal to snout and eye combined, the fin extending to 

 below the 10th spine of the dorsal. D. XVII-i, 15-VIII; A. ii, 

 14-VIII; V. I. 5; P. i, 24. Lateral line curved downward below 

 the second dorsal and the second half of it more or less undulat- 

 ing; pectoral scaly. 



Color silvery; a narrow longitudinal stripe of brownish or 

 bronze beginning behind the pectoral and running to base of 

 caudal; numerous oblong brownish spots mostly below this 

 stripe, none of them more than one half the diameter of eye; 



