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Tautogolabrns adspersus Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 14, 1879; 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 87, 1880; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 

 368, 1897; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 102, 1898; Jordan & 

 EvEEMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1577, 1898, pi. OCXXXVI, fig. 

 595, 1900; Bean, 52d Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 107, 1900; Sherwood 

 & Ebwards, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 30, 1901. 



Body fusiform, stout, its greatest depth nearly one third of 

 total length without caudal, the profile much less convex than 

 in the tautog; least depth of caudal peduncle one half of great- 

 est depth of body. Head one third of total length without 

 caudal, the snout pointed, and forming one third of the length 

 of head; eye placed high, its diameter one fifth length of head; 

 preorbital bone not equal in width to the eye; jaws equal, with 

 thick lips; mouth moderate, the maxillary nearly reaching to 

 vertical from front of eye; five canines in front of upper jaw, 

 about four in lower, the teeth on sides of jaw largest in front; 

 bands of small concave teeth behind canines; gill rakers very 

 short, about 6+11 on first arch; scales rather small; top 

 of head, preorbital, maxillary, mandible, interopercle, and pos- 

 terior edge of preopercle and opercle naked; preopercle with 

 about five rows of small scales; opercle with four or five rows 

 of larger ones; fins naked. Base of spinous dorsal two and 

 one half times as long as that of soft dorsal; the spines gradu- 

 ally increasing in length up to the seventh, from which they are 

 about equal, the seventh about three eighths as long as the 

 head, the first only one sixth as long as the head. Soft dorsal 

 a little higher than spinous, the longest ray one half as long 

 as the head. Caudal rounded, its middle rays about one half as 

 long as the head. Anal under the second half of the dorsal, its 

 base as long as the head without the snout; the spines stout 

 and sharp, the first equal to the eye in length, the second and 

 third nearly equal and a little more than one third length of 

 head; the fourth and fifth soft rays equal, longest, one half as 

 long as the head. Pectoral broad, short, one half as long as- 

 the head. Ventral slightly longer than pectoral, not reaching^ 

 to vent. ' ! " 



D. XVIII, 9 or 10; A. Ill, 9; scales 6-47-13; vertebrae 17+19.. 



