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milky white. The ventrals are strealved and spotted witli sienna brown 

 and milky White on both surfaces, the membrane close to the third ray 

 having a regular alternation of these brown and white spots. The anal 

 is grayish brown sparsely mottled with spots similar to those on the 

 ventrals. The peritoneum is silvery white. 



The length of the intestine is equal to the distance from the tip of the 

 snout to the end of the anal fin. The genital papilla is short, about 

 equal in length to the opening of the vent. 



Table of measurements. 

 Melletes papilio Beau. 



Saint Paul's Island, Alaska, 1872. 

 W. EUiott. 



Length 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 



Greatest width 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Length of operculum to end of flap. 



Length of upper jaw 



Length of maxillary 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout - - - 



Length of base 



Leuiith of last spine 



Length of first spine 



Length of second spine 



Leuiithof third spine 



Lengtli of fourth spine 



Length of fifth spine 



Dorsal (soft) : 



Length of base 



Length of antecedent spine 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Length of last ray. . .' 



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 



• Pectoial ,. 



Ventral 



Milli- . 

 meters. 



lOOths of 

 length to 

 origin of 

 middle 

 caudal 

 rays. 



VI 

 XL i, 20 

 17 

 11 

 17 



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