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The soft dorsal has its rays faintly barred, the posterior half darkest, the margin irregularly 

 hlackish. Caudal with much white iiigment, the terminal fourth with a series of oblong black blotches, 

 LK-cupying the membranes lK-tweeii the rays. The remainder of the Cm has two or three irregular cross- 

 series of smaller roundish black spots. The anal is white, some of the rays occasionally margined 

 with black. \'entrals white, sometimes black-margined. Pectorals dusky at base, becoming black 

 toward middle of lin; the distal half is occupied by a conspicuous white cross-bar, beyond which is a 

 narrow bar of black. The white cross-bar does not involve the upper or the lower rays. 



Measurenunls in Jlundrcdllts of Length zvithout Caudal. 



Total length in mm 



Length to base of caudal in mm. 



Greatest depth 



Least depth 



Length of caudal peduncle 



Head. 

 Snout . 

 Orbit . 



Interorbital width 



Maxillary 



Greatest width of snout without spine.. 



Snout to first dorsal spine 



Base of spinous dorsal 



Base of soft dorsal 



Longest caudal ray 



Middle caudal rays 



Upper pectoral ray 



Fifth pectoral ray 



Ninth (longest) pectoral ray 



Upper detached ray 



Second detached ray 



Third detached ray 



Snout to first anal ray 



Base of anal 



Ventral spine 



Outer ventral ray 



Inner ventral ray 



232 



185 

 25 

 9i 

 17 

 43i 

 i9i 



III 



19J 



24 



43i 



23i 



24 



24i 



18 

 28 

 32 



3U 



27 



21 



66i 



19 



14 



19 



24 



213 



171 

 24 1 

 91 

 17 

 40 

 18 



1\ 



lOi 



18 

 23 



40^ 



2li 



24i 

 22\ 



1 81 



27 

 31 

 30 

 24 

 i8i 



65 

 20 



14 

 18 



24 



224 

 182 

 24^ 

 9 

 17 

 40 

 i8i 

 7i 



lOj 



18 



23 

 40 

 20^ 

 26 



24i 

 22^ 



i7i 



25 J 



29 



31 



24 



20 



64 



20\ 



14 

 18 

 22^ 



152 



121 



28 



9 



18 



44 

 i9i 



H 

 12 

 20 

 26 

 44 

 23i 

 23 

 29 

 26J 



20i 

 29 



33 



35i 



28i 



24 

 65 



20i 



i6i 



21 

 24 



