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AuLOHOPLOSTETHUS, new subgenus 



Type. — Hoplofifethus metallicus^ new species. 



Silvery lateral tubelike striate areas on chest, breast, prepectoral 

 region, and along abdominal edge. 



Differs from subgenus Hoplostethus in the silvery lateral tubelike 

 striate areas. 



{avXos, tube -\- Hoplostethus.) 



HOPLOSTETHUS METALLICUS, new species 



Figure 10 



Depth 19/io to 2; head 21/3 to 2%, width l^o to 2V5. Snout 4 to 41/0 

 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to SVs, greater than snout, equals inter- 

 orbital ; maxillary oblique, reaches opposite hind eye edge ; expansion 

 ly^ to 114 ii^ eye, length 1% in head from snout tip ; teeth in villiform 

 bands in jaws and on palatines, none on vomer; interorbital 31/3 to 3%, 

 convex; nasalia minute, close set, directed downward. Gill rakers 

 8 + 16, lanceolate, twice gill filaments or li^ in eye. 



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Figure 10. — Hoplostethus met alliens, new species. Type. 



Scales 70 close along above lateral line to caudal base and 4 more 

 on latter; pores 29; 13 scales above, 22 below, 28 predorsal forward 

 nearly opposite hind eye edge, 6 behind maxillary expansion. Ab- 

 dominal serrae 5 or 6. Chest, breast, prepectoral area, narrow strip 

 from above ventral base along each side of abdominal or postventral 

 serrae to anal fin origin, silvery gray area, with very fine parallel close- 

 set dark lines whole extent ; similar area begins well above anal origin 

 on lower side of tail and extends back alone; lower or under surfacei 



