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of the lateral line sufficiently defines it, especially in connection with 

 the slender, eel-like form. 

 {XvKog, wolf; fVjf/lt's-, eel.) 



3. LYCENCHELYS PCECILIMON Jordan and Fowler, new species. 



Head 5^; depth 13; I). KIT; A. 90; P. IT; depth of body 2| in head; 

 snout 4|; eye 3|; maxillar}^ 2; pectoral 1|; head a little over 1 in 

 trunk; head and trunk li in tail. 



Body elonoate, the depth more or less uniform, greatest behind 

 head, and the trunk tapering behind; compressed, and the width of 

 the head greater than the greatest width of the body. Head elongate, 

 oblong; snout rather blunt, olituse, and convex above; eyes large, 

 elongated, anterior, somewhat directed upward, very close together 

 and greater than the snout; lips moderately broad; mouth large, the 

 maxillary reaching a little beyond the posterior margin of the eye; 

 teeth rather large, strong, pointed, and in a single series in each jaw, 



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Fig. 2.— LYCENCHELYS PCECILIMON. 



those of the upper jaw the larger; tongue thick, rounded, rather 

 long, and not free in front. Gill-openings large, lateral, the mem- 

 branes broadl}' united to the isthmus. 



Head naked, also the nape, region about ventrals, and pectorals; 

 body covered with small, round cycloid scales; the greater portion of 

 the basal parts of the vertical fins posteriori}^ with small scales. 



Dorsal almost over the base of the pectoral but posterior to the gill- 

 opening, and, like the anal, uniform in height to near the end of the 

 tail, which is bluntly pointed; pectorals moderatel,y broad and pointed; 

 ventrals thoracic, rather slender, about equal to eye. Lateral line 

 obsolete, a trace running along the middle of the sides. 



Color in alcohol pale brown; sides with 11 H -shaped, deep-brown 

 markings extending on the vertical fins, posteriorly these lose the 

 middle and upper connecting bars and form about 8 deep-brown 

 vertical bars; upper surface of head brownish, with several oblique 

 bars across, one from the e^'e; lips blackish brown above; lower surface 

 of the trunk, pectorals, ventrals, and anterior portion of anal pale. 



