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series of conical teeth; 2 large curved canines on vomer; head with 
several rows of fringed i)ores: one row along lower line of 0 })ercle and 
siihopercle; another along upper edge of cheehs, this branching behind 
and below the orbit, one branch running forwards below the orbit and 
around the snout, the other vertically downwards behind the inaxilhuy; 
a series of fringes behind the lower lip; behind this a series of pores 
without fringes; a short straight series of pores on each side of vertex; 
a row of pores along the base of the dorsal tin, curving at front of dor- 
sal, and terminating at upper angle of opercle; a row below this, not 
reaching base of pectoral ; a third row does not* reach the base of can- 
dal, and is anteriorly strongly curved upwards to base of pectoral ; 2 
concentric series on the abdomen, the outer extending forwards be- 
tween bases of ventrals. The so-called ‘‘shining i)ores” on the sides 
are not pores, but bright round pieces of shiny membrane, showing 
through a translucent skin; each of the spots has above it a pair of 
fringed flai)s with a small pore between them; the rows of flaps along 
bases of dorsal and anal tins are without shining spots. Ventrals 
reaching bases of pectorals, which reach to opposite the sixth anal 
ray; caudal not half length of head; peritoneum black. Head 3§; 
depth 0. 1). 11-37; A. 33; V. I, 2; P.18. L. 15 inches. Pacitic coast; 
veiy abundant from Lower California to Puget Sound ; occasionally 
southward to Panama; also in the West Indies and on the coast of 
Prazil. 
(Bafrachus jmrosissimus C. & V. xii, 501: Porichtliys notatus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phila. 1854, 141, and in U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 134; Gunther, iii, 176.) 
Family CXIII.-LEPTOSCOPIDgE. 
Botly oblong, low, compressed posteriorly, covered with moderate 
cycloid, imbriv-^ated scales; lateral line complete, anteriorly running 
along side of back, posteriorly median; head oblong, nearly plane 
above; eyes small, su[)erior, well forward; suborbital bones enlarged, 
but without “stay’’; nostrils double; opercle fringed; mouth nearly 
vertical; premaxillaries protractile, not forming the entiiv edge of the 
upper Jaw; lips fringed ; gill-openings very broad, the membranes sep- 
arate and free from the isthmus; pseudobranchim present or absent. 
Dorsal tin very long, undivided, sev^eral of the anterior rays spinous; 
anal very long, commencing close behind the vent, which is near the 
breast; caudal diphycercal, free from dorsal and anal; ]>ectorals vari- 
able, the base procurrent; ventrals Jugular, I, 3 or I, 5; vertebrm more 
than 10 + 1-1; pyloric cceca none. Genera about 5; si)ecies about 10; 
