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Tables. — I'miJOi tiomil nn nsunini nts of xoiiii x/Kt-iix nf I'aralii-litliys 

 (Expressed as percentages of standard lenRth] 



* Head lencth from tip of snout to miir^in of operclo. not inclmiine the 

 posterior soft bor'ii-r. 



2 Measured between soft margins. 



3 One specimen. 189 mm., uim-^ually slender, depth 38.5. This measure- 

 ment is not included in the averaee. 



* .Specimens measured from the followin? localities: Texas, 10 specimens, 

 29-47 mm., and 4. .5S-<>8 mm.; Cedar Keys, Fla., 1. 308 mm; all others in a 

 mixed lot from Beaufort, N. C, and Key West, Fla., the labels of many 

 of them lost and not separable definitely. The somewhat irregular changes 

 in pmportional mea.sun'mt'nt,s with growth may be caused by the mixed 

 samnli's. pi^rhaps the number of si>ecimens from each locality unevenly 

 rcpri'.scnti'd in the ditTerent categories. 



* One specimen, 9'> mm., having an unusually deep body, 49.3. This 

 measurement is not included in the average. Specimen has fA scales and a 



number of accessory scales, and is evidently not squamilentus. It has the 

 typical color of aVnqntta. 



* One specimen nol included in this table. 148 mm., an extreme variant, 

 unusually slender and wiih a notably long head and maxillary: depth 37.7; 

 maxillary 17.7; head 32.4; interorbital 2.2. 



" Another S[K'cimen, 154 mm., having an unusiially long head for its size, 

 32.1. This measurement is not included in the average. 



* Specimens from following lociiHiii-s measured and included in the table: 

 in category 29-47 mm. are 8 specimens from Texas; 59-4*5 mm., 7 from Texas; 

 111-132 mm.. 3 from Texas, and 13 from Ltiuisiana; 134-200 mm.. 1 from 

 Texas and 10 from Louisiana; 20tV2tt2 mm.. 4. s. and 3 from Texa-i, I^>utsiat»3 

 and North Carolina, respectively: 310-3K:i mm.. 2, 2. and 4. from Texas, 

 (ieorgia and North Carolina, respectively; ;i'.i;{-472 mm., 4 from North 

 Carolina; 497-059, 2 from Texas, and 2 from North Carolina. 



