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snout length. Interorbital broadlj^ convex. Suborbital chain nar- 

 row, and leaves cheek broadly exposed. Preopercle with ridge 

 nearly vertical. Opercle large, smooth. 



Gill-opening forward, nearly opposite hind pupil edge. No rakers. 

 Gill-filaments 1| in eye. Isthmus narrowly constricted, slender, 

 and surface with rather narrow lengthwise groove. Branchiostegals 

 moderately long and slender. 



Scales of more or less uniform size, cycloid, well exposed in longitu- 

 dinal parallel series. No axillary scaly flaps, and no scales on bases 

 of fins. L. 1. onlj' slightly developed as 4 simple pores at shoulder. 



Fig. 2. — Curimatus ligris Fowler. (Type.) 



Dorsal inserted anteriorly, or about midway between snout tip 

 and end of adipose fin, first branched ray longest, and depressed fin 

 reaches about If to caudal base. Adipose fin small, placed just 

 behind anal base. Anal inserted a little nearer ventral origin than 

 caudal base, first branched ray longest, extends well beyond rest 

 of fin or till opposite caudal base, and lower edge of fin nearly straight. 

 Caudal moderate, well forked, with equal pointed lobes. Pectoral 

 with rather long fleshy base, surrounded on all its free edges by rays, 

 of which upper a little longer than others. Ventral inserted about 

 midway between pectoral and anal origins, and fin extends back 

 -I to anal. Vent close in front of anal. 



Color in alcohol largely pale brownish, more or less uniform gen- 

 erally. Back with about 14 lateral vertical dark or dusky streaks, 



