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Body well compressed, greatest depth at origin of dorsal, and back 

 well elevated. Upper anterior profile gibbous or convex. Edge of 

 back rounded. Caudal peduncle compressed, its length about f in 

 least depth. 



Head rather constricted below, upper surface convex and with a 

 nearly straight profile to occiput. Nuchal region convex. Head of 

 rather even width. Snout broad and obtuse, especially when viewed 



Fig. 7. — Curimata copei Fowler. 



from above, and a little produced beyond tip of mandible. Eye large, 

 its center near first f in length of head, and a trifle longer than deep. 

 Adipose eyelids a little broad. Mouth broad, a little inferior, and 

 symphysis with a little knob fitting in a depression in upper jaw. 

 Mandibular angle broadly obtuse. Tongue thick, rounded, hardly 

 free in front, and not broad. Nostrils adjoining, superior, a little 

 nearer front of eye than tip of snout and posterior larger. Anterior 

 nostril circular, and with a cutaneous margin. Interorbital space 

 broad, a little elevated, and flattened medianly. Postorbital about 

 equal to preorbital or about size of pupil. First infraorbital a little 



