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maxillary reaching pupil. Cheek entirely scaly, some 

 scales on opercle above. Breast naked, body well scaled. 

 Body with small scales, the nuchal region naked, scarcely 

 carinate. Gill-rakers rather long, 2-J-15. 



Lateral line evenly curved, the curve high, equal to 

 straight part. Scutes small, eighteen with keels; the 

 total number of scales on straight part 58. 



Steel blue above, silvery below, with golden reflections 

 and shades; fins all pale, tinged with yellowish, none of 

 them dusky; no black on pectorals. Axil jet black; 

 opercle slightly dusky, blackish within: a dark spot on 

 orbit above. 



Specimen described, ten inches long. 



Citula dor salts (adult): 



Length 24 inches; head 2% '■> depth 2% ; D. 18; A. 17. 

 About 25 scutes developed. Body moderately compressed, 

 with angular outlines. Profile of head rounded, of belly 

 somewhat concave, forming an angle at anal similar to 

 one at front of dorsal. Eye 5 in head. Maxillary 2%; 

 lower jaw included. Teeth in broad villiform bands on 

 both jaws and on vomer and palatines. Nostrils large, 

 equal, close together. Gill-rakers 3+14, rather stout, 

 shorter than eye. Dorsal spines nearly obsolete, three 

 of them present; first dorsal ray filamentous, \)/ A in body. 

 Long anal ray 2V± in body. Caudal keel considerably 

 elevated, with a small keel above and below it; scutes not 

 sharp. Caudal lobes subequal, about as long as head. 

 Pectoral falcate, \ longer than head. Ventral short, 3^ 

 in head. Curve of lateral line low, 1% times in straight 

 part, its height % its chord. Maxillary broad, with very 

 broad supplemental bone, its width ^ eye. 



Color, silvery, strongly tinged with golden, olive on 

 upper parts, pearly reflections below. A large black spot 

 in axil, nearly as large as eye. Fins pale. 



