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.ALixillaiy reaching to below front of pupil. Outer row of teeth 

 enlarged on both jaws; the bands of about equal width on })oth jaws, 

 nnich Avider in front than on sides; a small patch of teeth on middle of 

 vomer; palatines toothless. A short fringed flap above eye, its length 

 one-half to three-fourths the diameter of eye; no tentacles at nape. 



The notch between spinous and soft portions of dorsals of nioderate 

 depth; the tips of spines and rays scarcely produced above membrane; 

 the last spine not lengthened beyond the one preceding it; the sixth' 

 spine ^i in head, equal to the tenth or eleventh spine; 1:he' sixth ray 

 2i in head. Pectorals usually reaching just past tips of ventrals, but 

 not nearly to the vertic-al from vent; its posterior edge broadh- roundi^d; 

 19 rays, not much branched; the seventh to the tenth rays the longest,' 

 li in head. Anal rays free from membrane at their tips; the tifth rav 

 3 in head. Ventrals rather long and pointed; their posterior iifth 



Fig. 2.— HEXAGRAMMO.S octogrammcs. 



extending pastthe median point ])etween their base and front of anal 

 Caudal sliort and broad and very bluntly rounded. 



Scales on top of head and on body, except on ))reast and in front of 

 pectorals, ctenoid; scales on sides of head smooth, slightly imbedded 

 and not unbricated; scales present at base of soft dorsal, on membrane 

 between rays; and on base of caudal and pectoral, covering the basal 

 half of the former, the basal third of the latter. Snout, maxillary 

 preorbital. suborbitals, including suborbital stav, mandible, inter- 

 operclc and branchiostegal regions without scales. A series of scales 

 from front of anal running obliquely upward and forward to dorsal 

 number 4,, distributed as follows; 1 from front of anal to tifth lateral 

 line, 2b to third lateral line, 7 to second lateral line, 4 to first lateral 

 Ime and 4 to dorsal. First lateral line united to its fellow of the op- 

 posite side at posterior end of cranium and running to under middle 

 ot sou dorsal; second line beginning a little behind origin of first and 

 running to upper edge of caudal; the third line as usual from upper 

 part ot gill opening to middle of eaudal; the fourth forked in front of 



