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dible well convex. Teeth conic, a little large, uniserial in upper jaw 

 and biserial in lower, though none on maxillary or on roof of mouth. 

 Tongue a little slender or elongate, tip rounded and free. Gill- 

 opening extending forward about opposite front rim of pupil. Rakers 

 7 + 10?, lanceolate, a little shorter than filaments which are f of orbit. 

 Isthmus rather narrowly triangular. Each scale with a nimiber of 

 radiating striae. Color in alcohol plain brown. Upper portion of 

 dorsal more or less blackish with a narrow pale margin. Iris rather 

 brassy. Length 2^-^ inches (caudal a little damaged). 



OHARAOID^. 

 CURIMATIN.E. 

 Curimatella meyeri (Steindachner). Fig. 3. 



Head 3f ; depth about 4; D. iv, 9; A. ii, 8; scales (according to 

 pockets) about 38? in lateral line to base of caudal, and about 5? more 

 on latter; between origin of dorsal and lateral line, obliquely forward, 

 about 5?, and about same number between lateral line and origin of 

 ventral; about 16? scales before dorsal; snout 3^ in head; eye 3^; 



Fig. 3. — Curimatella meyeri (Steindachner). 



width of mouth 4; maxillary 4f ; interorbital space 2^; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3. Apparently no rakers. Caudal at present with 

 few scales and these mostly fallen. The color in alcohol, probably due 

 to preservation, is faded brown. This may also account for the ab- 

 sence of spots on the scales of the back. One example (with damaged 

 caudal), 3| inches. Peru. Prof. J. Orton. Coll. 1873. 



