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dots or blotches of dark brown, especially along lateral line; dorsal 

 dark. Length (57 ram. 



Type. — No. (5301 in Leland Stanford Junior University Museum. 

 Two cotvpes (No. 8202) about same length; one of these is numbered 

 49548, U. S. N. M. 



ELOPICHTHYS BAMBUSA (Richardson). 



One specimen, 1. 180 mm. D. 11; A. 12. Ventral I, 9. Lateral 

 line 96. Maxillary extending to below orbit. Caudal very deeply 

 forked. The poSt-ventral portion of the abdomen is not compressed. 

 Height of dorsal five-sixths of depth of bod}'. Pharyngeal teeth 

 4.4.1-2.4.4. 



PARAPELECUS MACHiERIUS Abbott, new species. 



Very close to Parapelecus argenteus Giinther,^ differing especially in 

 the pharyngeal dentition and the longer anal and pectoral fins. 



D. 10; A. 29. Lateral line 68. Depth 4^, head ^\ eye 3f in head. 

 Head and body very strongly compressed. Snout very acute. Max- 



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PARAPELECUS MACH^RIUS, NEW SPECIES. 



illary reaching level of nostril, mouth strongly slanted. Pharyngeal 

 teeth hooked; 4. 4. 2.-2. 4. 4. Dorsal outline straight, ventral strongly 

 arched, the whole edge trenchant. Pectorals long and narrow, ter- 

 minating at a distance from the root of the ventrals, equal to the diam- 

 eter of the eye; longer than head. The lateral line makes an abrupt 

 descent at about the eighth pore, rising again at the end of the anal, 

 to the middle of the tail, the anterior mucus tubes with a vertical 

 branch as described for P. argenteus. Dorsal short, beginning mid- 

 way between root of caudal and end of opercle, its last ray on the 

 verticle from first ray of anal. Ventrals somewhat nearer to snout 

 than to root of caudal. Color silvery, darker above. Length 130 mm. 

 Type. — No. 6307 in Leland Stanford Junior University Museum; also 

 No. 49549, U.S.N.M. 



^ Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1889, p. 227. 



