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crowded gray dots. On the outer portion of the anal they are fewer. 

 Ventral with only a few gray dots above. Upper edge of the maxillary 

 barbels with gray dots. Lips whitish. 



Length 8^ inches. 



One example. This is evidently the young of marinus, though I 

 have never seen any young examples before. It agrees with adult and 

 rather large examples from the New Jersey coast. 



H^MULID^. 



CONODON Cuvier. 



1830. Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, p. 116. 



Type Conodon antillanus Cuvier. /. c. "Jamaique." (Coll. M. 

 Broussonnet.) [=plumien.] 



2. Conodon plumieri (Bloch). 



1797. Scixma plumieri Bloch, Ichthyologie, III, Pt. 9, p. 57, PL 306- 

 "Antilles." 



Head 3; depth 3i; D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 7; scales 52 in the lateral 

 line to the base of the caudal; 6 scales between the origin of the dorsal 

 and the lateral line in a vertical series, and 12 between the latter and 

 the origin of the anal ; fourth dorsal spine 1| in the head ; second dorsal 

 ray 2|?; pectoral li; snout S^- in the head, measured from the tip of 

 the upper jaw^; eye 4|; maxillary 2|; interorbital space 5. 



Back elevated and compressed, the greatest depth at the base of the 

 second dorsal spine. Least depth of the caudal peduncle one and 

 two-thirds in its length. 



Upper profile of the head a little convex. Snout broad, convex, 

 with the upper jaw projecting, and the upper profile a little convex. 

 Eye high, impinging on the upper profile of the head, and its posterior 

 margin about midway in the length of the same. Preorbital margin 

 undulate. Maxillary reaching opposite the first fifth of the eye, and 

 its distal expanded portion a little less than half. Lips thick and 

 fleshy. Bands of minute teeth in the jaws, with fif large conic canines 

 in the front of each jaw forming an outer series. Tongue broad, round, 

 and free in front. Nostrils large, close together at the front of the 

 eye, circular, and the posterior about half the size of the anterior. 

 Interorbital space flattened. Margin of the preopercle with sparse 

 short serrations, ending in a spine below, and its lower edge with a series 

 of short spines directed forward. . ' 



Gill-opening extending about opposite the posterior fourth of the 

 eye. Gill-rakers 6+16, pointed, more or less even, and a little shorter 



