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in its length, which is 3 in the head; bony ridge in front of the eye not 

 conspicuous; eyes close together, on top of the head, directed upward, 

 1 to li in the snout, 2^ to 3i in the width and 4 to 4i in the length of 

 the head; mouth small, inferior, the upper jaw protruding, and the 

 maxillary not reaching to the nostril; teeth in villiform bands in the 

 jaws; lips rather thin, the lower broad on each side; preoperculum 

 with a sharp spine directed backward equal to the e3'e, the upper 

 edge with small, sharp, antrorse barbs and the base in front with a 

 short, sharp spine directed forward; head entirel}' smooth above and 

 without an}' asperities. Gill openings small, round, on the upper 

 surface of the bod}' a short distance in front of the origin of the 

 dorsal, as far apart as the outer margins of the eyes, and much nearer 

 the eye than the liase of the pectoral. 



Origin of spinous dorsal midway, or a little nearer to the posterior 

 margin of the eye than the origin of the soft dorsal; spines long, 



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slender, produced into long filaments, the first the longest, graduated 

 to the last, which is the shortest, and contained in the body about If 

 times; origin of soft dorsal nearer the base of the last anal ray than 

 the tip of the snout, the fin rising behind to the last ray, which is the 

 longest; origin of the anal a little behind the second dorsal ray, the 

 fin growing deeper behind to the last ray, which is the longest, and 

 its tip reaching about as far as that of the last dorsal ray; origin of 

 pectorals nearer the origin of the spinous dorsal than that of the soft 

 dorsal; the middle rays produced into a point and the lowei- the 

 longest; ventrals shorter than the head, longer than the pectorals, the 

 inner rays the longest, and joined to the base of the pectorals in front 

 by a membrane; cavidal moderately long, the middle rays the longest 

 and strongest. Caudal peduncle compressed, l)roader tlian the depth, 

 which is less than the eye. 



Color in alcohol brown above, with numerous rounded blotches and 

 spots of pale brown margined more or less with deep brown, and 



