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reaches eye, expansion li/^ to 2 in eye, length 2^5 to 2% in head from 

 snout tip; 4 large upper front canines, followed by 5 or 6 smaller 

 wide set teeth each side; 8 or 9 wide set teeth each side below, first 

 one of which well inclined back and not enlarged; row of small 

 slender teeth on each palatine ; interorbital 6i^ to 9, rather low, level. 

 Gill rakers as 2 + 7, low, short, feeble denticles, barely y^ of gill 

 filaments, which 1% in eye. 



No scales. Lateral line complete, axial along side of body. 

 D. 115 to 122, fin height 7 in total head length ; A. 74, lower than 

 dorsal; caudal 6 to 61/^? (damaged) ; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 21/2 to 5 in eye ; pectoral 2% to 3 in head, rays 12 ; ventral small pair 

 of rudimentary scalelike flaps opposite pectoral origin on median 

 line of belly, about l^ of eye. 



Gray or leaden, where skin rubbed off brown. Iris gray. Inside 

 mouth and gill opening blackish gray. Fins pale. 



Type.—U.S.'NM. no. 98821. D. 5445. Atalaya Point, Batag Island, 

 S. 56° E., 5.3 miles (lat. 12°44'42'' N., long. 124°59'50'' E.), east 

 coast of Luzon, Philippines. In 383 fathoms. June 3, 1909. Length 

 632 mm. Also a series of 4 paratypes from deep water in the Philip- 

 pines and East Indies. 



(Named for Dr. Marcus Benjamin (1857-1932), efficient editor 

 during many years of the publications of the United States National 

 Museum.) 



Family CARANGIDAE 



Genus ALEPES Swainson 



Branchialepes, new subgenus 



Type. — jSelar tdbidae Barnard. 



Differs from the subgenera Alepes Swainson and Atule Jordan and 

 Jordan in the increased lower gill rakers 50, compared with 19 to 32 

 for the former two divisions. Also has well developed posterior 

 adipose eyelids. 



{^payx'-ov, gil\ + Alepes, with reference to the numerous lower gill 

 rakers.) 



Genus URASPIS Bleeker 



URASPIS PECTORALIS, new species 



Figure 17 



Depth 21^; head 2%, width 2%. Snout 2% in head from snout 

 tip ; eye 3l^, 1% in snout, 1% in interorbital ; orbit 3, equals snout ; 

 maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion 2 in eye, length 2i/^ in head 

 from snout tip; teeth uniserial in jaws, absent from palate or tongue; 



