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very wide; preiuaxillaiy not protractile, very long and strong, 
more tlian half the length of the head; maxillary closely connected 
with it, very small or obsolete. I’remaxillary with one or two series of 
large, compressed, knife-shaped teeth, the inner and larger depressible. 
Palatine teetli similar, smaller, in a single broad band. Lower Jaw with 
a baial of rather large teeth, the inner and larger teeth depressible; a 
patch of strong, <lepressible teeth on the tongue in front, and a long 
row along the hyoid bone. Jaws nearly equal. Eye rather large, 
anterior. Supraorbital forming a projection above the eye. Pseudo- 
branchite well developed. (Idl-rakers very small, spine-like. Gill- 
membranes slightly connected. Top ot head naked. Cheeks and oper- 
cles scaled like the body. Body covered with rather small, adherent, 
cycloid scales. Lateral line present. Xo i)hosphorescent spots. Dor- 
sal lin short, rather anterior. Pectorals moderate, inserted high. Yen- 
trals anterior, not far behind pectorals, large, the inner rays longer than 
the outer. Anal short. Caudal narrow, forked. Branchiostegals 12-10. 
Stomach with a long, blind sac and many pyloric coeca. Skeleton rather 
linn. Species numerous. Voracious lishes of moderate size, inhabiting 
sandy bottoms at no great depth. In most warm seas, {truvooauzj ancient 
name of some lish, from <tu>u3ou^, teeth meeting, not shutting past each 
other like scissors.) 
Snout rather pointed, lonj^er than eye ; upper jaw the longer. (Sy nodus.') 
KiS. S. fsKfc CIS (L.) Gill. — Sand P'lke; Lizard-fish. 
Olivaceous; yellowish below; baclv; mottled; upper surface of head 
brownish, distinctly vermiculated with yellowish; ventral tins, lower 
side of heati, and inside of mouth tinged with yellow. Eye moderate, 
in head. Scales less regularly a: ranged and the rows less oblifpie 
than in IS. lucioceps ; those on the opercle in about 5 rows, on the cheeks 
in 7 ; 25-;)U scales along back before dorsal, 4 in a vertical row between 
adipo.se lin and lateral line, 5 in an oblique row. Pectoral tin short, 
not reaching ventrals, its length three-fourths that of the premaxillary. 
N'entral large, its length from outer edge of base greater than from tip 
of snout to upper edge of gill-opening. Interorbital space (;onsiderably 
coneave, with radiating ridges. Head 4,^. B. 12; D. 11; A. 11; Y. 8; 
scales 7-04-8 (the vertical rows counted obliquely). L. 12 inches. Cape 
(Jod to South America; common southward. Kot valued as food. 
(Salmo fatens L. Syst. Nat.: Saurus fastens Giiutlier, v, 396: Sauriis foctens Holbrook, 
Ichth. 8. Car. Ib7.) 
