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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



in the drawing) to caudal peduncle. The body is covered with small, circular, 

 cj'cloid, deciduous scales, a few only remaining near the middle of the body behind 

 the pectoral. One was found below the pectoral in the region where they are 

 enlarged in Caristius japonicus. It was not larger than the others. The cheek 



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Fig. is. Caristius japonicus Smith & Pope. (From Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXXI, p. 491). 



and opercle was fully scaled, the scales similar to those on the body, though few 

 scales now remain. The lateral line is distinct and runs from the upper part of the 

 opercle on a level with the upper margin of the pupil, straight back, with no curve 

 whatever, to the middle of the caudal base. There was probably a sheath of scales 

 along the base of the dorsal and anal, as in Pteraclis, but the scales are smaller and 

 more deciduous than in this genus. 



There are rather slender teeth in a straight row on the edges of both jaws and 

 on the vomer and palatines. The cheek is deep and triangular, about four-fifths 

 of the diameter of the eye in depth. The gill-rakers are rather slender, the longest 

 about half the diameter of the pupil and they number 6-|-14. 



The pectorals are a little shorter than head, reaching about to ninth anal ray. 



