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jaw are 3 or 4 canine-like teeth on each side, similar to those in lower 

 jaw, but rather smaller; the lateral teeth all equally minute; interorbital 

 space narro\r, scaled posteriorly, not tiat, the ridge of upper orbit promi- 

 nent posteriorly; interorbital width 2i to 3 in eye; lower eye slightly in 

 advance of the upper, 5f in head; gill-rakers moderate, broad, with 3 or 

 4 coarse serratures on inner margin; 10 rakers beloTV angle, the longest 

 2h in orbit. 



Fins all low; dorsal beginning slightly in advance of upper eye, the 

 first two rays a little turned to blind or left side, the anterior rays not 

 elevated or exserted; dorsal highest at beginning of last fourth of fin, 

 the longest ray 2§ in head. Anal similar to dorsal; distance from its 

 origin to snout 24 in length of body ; the highest ray 2f in head. Caudal 

 rounded, 1^ in head ; pectoral long and slender, half head ; ventrals long, 

 reaching beyond front of anal, slightly less than one-third head. 



Scales rather small, becoming somewhat larger on caudal peduncle; 

 lateral line with a short, high, somewhat oblique, arch in front, the 

 anterior end of arch much above axis of body ; width of arch about 

 3^ in straight portion of lateral line; scales all smooth and imbedded; 

 minute accessory scales very numerous. 



Head 3^ in length, depth 2f. I). 7(5 to 79; A. 59 to Gl. Lat. 1. about 

 90 (pores); about 00 oblique series behind curve of lateral line. 



Color (in specimen from Pensacola) dark greenish, mottled with 

 darker, and with many very small pale spots; tins all colored like the 

 body. A specimen from Beaufort, N. C, is nearly uniform dark brown. 



The types of the present species (Xo. 30818 U. S. Nat. Mus.) are two 

 specimens, 7 to 8 inches long, obtained in the Laguna Grande, at Pensa- 

 cola. A third specimen is known from Beaufort, I^. C, and a few small 

 specimens from Pensacola, in addition to the one mentioned above. 

 There is also a small specimen (4887), which has been a long time in the 

 National Museum, where it has received from unknown hands, the 

 manuscript name " Clicmopsetta albigutta.''^ This specific name we here 

 adopt as our own. 



119. Paraliclithys sqiiamilentus sp. nov. P. (30862.) 



Sinistral. Body very deep, closely compressed, the greatest height 

 at about tlie middle of the length ; caudal peduncle very short, its 

 lengtli one-third its height, which is 2f in head; profile evenly arched, 

 augulated at front of upper eye, the snout thus projecting ; head short 

 and high, the greatest height at occiput equalling the length, which is 

 contained 3f times in length of body ; snout 4f in head. ]\[outh large, 

 \'ery oblique, the lower jaw included ; mandibh^ with a sharp compressed 

 knob at symphysis, its length 1| in head; maxillary narrow, reaching 

 beyond pupil, but not quite to posterior margin of lower eye, its length 

 very slightly more than half head ; teeth in lower jnw of moderate size, 

 the longest rather less than diameter of pupil, the largest next the sym- 

 ])hysis, thence decreasing rapidly towards corner of mouth ; the teeth 

 are distant, few in number, 8 on each side; upper jaw with two or three 

 rather large teeth on each side in front, these smaller than tliose in lower 



