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3^; anal base 14; pectoral (damaged) 2; ventral (damaged) 2*; 

 snout 4; eye 3+; maxillary H; interorbital 4. 



Body«elongate, slender, well compressed, profiles similar, apparently 

 deepest at dorsal origin, edges rounded? Caudal peduncle com- 

 pressed, its least depth about 3 in its length. 



Head well compressed, profiles similar and slightly convex, flattened 

 sides a little approximated below so that lower surface much narrower 

 than upper and not keeled medianly. Snout conic, profiles convex, 

 protruding, length about equals its basal width. Eye rather large, 

 rounded, a little elevated, at first § in head. Adipose eyelid thin, 

 covers eye entirely. Mouth large, front above with scarcely median 

 depression. Maxillary straight, slightly expanded distally about 

 3| in eye, reaches hind preopercle edge, though not quite to articulation 

 of mandible. Maxillary teeth uniseiial, close-set, anterior slightly 



Fig. 2. — Anchovia scitula Fowler. Type. 



bent back and posterior slightly inclined forward, throughout greater 

 median extent of about uniform size, though anteriorly and posteriorly 

 graduated down a little smaller, not continuous over front of upper 

 jaw, and extending to hind end of bone. Similar more minute erect 

 mandibular teeth, not connected across symplrysis. Apparently 

 no palatine or vomerine teeth, and pterygoids hardly roughened. 

 Tongue smooth small knob, attached in front of mandible, from behind 

 its upper surface and length of basibranchial shaft above a narrow 

 area of minute asperities. Mandible convex over surface, constricted 

 to point at symphysis, rami not elevated or only sloping gradually 

 toward articulation behind. Mandible tip extends forward about 

 opposite anterior nostril. Nostrils small, together, a trifle nearer eye 

 than snout tip. Interorbital broadly convex. Each supraoccipital 

 ridge distinct, flaring out a little over each eye anteriorly. Cheek 

 would nearly form an equilateral triangle. Cheek and opercle smooth. 

 Gill-opening forward about opposite front eye edge. Rakers 19 + 



