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vary widely, as it does in the related species. The pseudobranchiae 

 are covered by membrane in the three specimens at hand. The 

 rather widely spaced gill-rakers are smooth on their inner edge, and 

 are bluntly tipped; they are about half as long as the orbit. Gill- 

 rakers 5+23 and 5+24 in the type, 5+22 and 5+21 in the larger 

 paratype. The branchial aperture extends forward to below the 

 front of the pupil ; a slit is present behind the last gill ; seven branchi- 

 ostegals. In the paratype examined the scapular foramen is in con- 

 tact with both the hypercoracoid and the hypocoracoid. 



The scales closely resemble those of G. denticulatus in their finer 

 structure, but differ remarkably in one point : the marks which were 

 considered as possible season-indicators are "much less pronounced, 

 and consist chiefly of a sudden bending of the striae along a line 



Fig. 4. — Gadomus magnifilis. Type. 



parallel with the margin of the scale (as seen on a scale from the 

 type, 103 mm. long to the anus, and also in one from the paratype, 

 70 mm. long to anus.) In each of these a slight suggestion of a 

 "check"' occurs outside of the better defined one. A light streak was 

 observed beneath this line in the substance of the scale. A marked 

 approximation of the rings a short distance out from the center 

 gives much the appearance of the first winter check in the salmon 

 scale. The less pronounced marks on the scales of this species lends 

 some support to the assumption that they are season marks, as the 

 seasons would be expected to leave a lesser trace on a fish inhabiting 

 greater depths. 



Seven scales were counted, in each of the three specimens, in a 

 series between the origin of the second dorsal and the lateral line, 

 not including the lateral line scale. The mandibular scales are in 

 a single series, with a few lateral scales posteriorly. The lateral 

 line is elevated on the trunk. 

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