1910.] 



NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



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A NEW FISH OF THE GENUS PARALEPIS FROM NEW JERSEY. 



BY HENRY W. FOWLER and DR. RICHARD J. PHILLIPS. 

 Paralepis barracudina sp. nov. 



Head 4^; depth 10; D. ii, 8, i; A. iii, 21, i; P. i, 13; V, i, 8; scales 

 in lateral count along lateral line to caudal base (squamation damaged) 

 estimated about 120?; 18 scales (several lost) ir slight oblique series 

 down from dorsal origin to that of ventral; about 70? predorsal scales; 

 head width b\ its length; greatest head depth 3; depressed dorsal 

 length 3; pectoral 2f; ventral 5; least depth caudal peduncle 6f ; 

 anal base about If; mandible 2; snout 2i in head, measured from 

 upper jaw tip; eye 6£; maxillary 3; interorbital 8£. 



Body elongate, slender, well compressed, edges convex, though 

 lower more constricted than upper. Greatest depth about dorsal 

 origin, body slightly tapering forward from this point, and more 

 suddenly behind. Sides of body flattened. Caudal peduncle small, 

 well compressed, and least depth nearly half its length. 



Head attenuated, well compressed, lower profile nearly straight, 

 and upper slightly concave anteriorly. Snout long, depressed or 



flattened above, and sides slightly convex. Eye rounded, little longer 

 than deep, high or close to upper profile, and placed slightly behind 

 middle in head length. Mouth terminal superiorly, moderately long, 

 and gape not extending back more than half length of maxillary. 

 Jaws thin, mandible large, well projecting beyond tip of upper jaw 

 and with slight symphyseal knob fitting in a corresponding shallow 

 emargination above, though latter quite broad so that front edge of 

 upper jaw laterally appears to ensheath it. Mandibular rami with 

 entire low prominent longitudinal external ridges. Maxillary thin, 

 moderately broad, slipping under thin preorbital edge above, and end 

 slightly more than § to eye. Uniserial minute, short, close-set, rather 

 robust, compressed and backwardly-curved teeth along upper jaw edge, 



