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Table of Measurements. 

 Species, Astroscopus y-grcecum. 



Current number of specimen 

 Locality 



I Mat.anzas River 

 I Inlet, Florida. 



Saint .Tohn's 

 River, Florida. 



Extreme lenEcth 



Lengtli to origin of middle caudal rays 

 Body : 



'Greatest height 



Greatest width 



Height at ventrals 



Least height of -tail 



Length of caudal peduncle 



Head : 



Greatest length 



Length of ot'cipital depression... 



Width <if occiiiital depression ... 



Greatrstwidtli 



"Width of iiileidi'bitalarea 



Lenuth <.t' siKnit 



Lengtli, if op.irulum 



Lengtii (if liiaxilhiry 



Lengtli of iiiaudible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length of fiist spine 



Length of second spine 



Length of last spino 



Dorsal (soft): 



Length of base 



Length of first lay 



Length of longest ray 



Length of lastfray 



Anal : 



Distance from snout : . 



Length of base 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Length of last ray 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays 



Length of external rays 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Branchiostegals 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Caudal 



Pectoral 



"Ventral 



Jf umber of scales in lateral line 



MiUi- 

 metres. 



VI 

 IV, 14 

 13 

 IG 

 20 

 G 

 ca. 80 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



Milli- 

 metres. 



2:;^ 



VI 



IV, 14 



13 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



Astroscopus anoplus (C. & V.) Brevoort. 



Urauoscopiia auopJos Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., Aiii, 18.j1, p. 493. (described 



from young siJecimens sent by Prof. LeConte) : DeKay, Nat. Hist. N. 



Y., Fisbes, 184'3, p. 37, pL xxii, lis. C5 : Stoker, Syn. Fishes N. A., 



184G, p. 4G ("Sonth Carolina, LeConte"); Mem. Amor. Acad., ii, p. 



298. 

 Astroscopus anoplus Gill ex Brevoort MSS., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., xii, 



Jan. 1860, p. 20; xiii, May, 1861, p. 114; Cat. Fisbes E. Coast N. A., 



1861, p. 43; Pep. U. S. Com. Fisb., 1873, p. 798: Yarrow, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Pbila., 1877, p. 207: Jordan & Gxlbkut, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., i, 1879, p. 372. 



