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brown, underlaid with silvery ; region behind and below eye silvery, 

 with large dark brown piinctulations ; nasal fossa dark brown, except 

 on margins of nostrils ; top of head lighter than the color of the body ; 

 underside of head colorless anteriorly, silvery posteriorly, with large 

 dark brown punctulations scattered near tip of snout, on midline of 

 snout, about mouth, and laterally on the posterior half of this region; 

 rami of the mandibles almost uniform blackish brown; gular and 

 branchiostegal membranes black, except for a narrow posterior 

 whitish margin. First dorsal gray, the base with a narrow bhickish 

 band, the second spine and the tips of the soft rays black; second dor- 

 sal whitish; anal dusky on posterior third, lighter on middle third, 

 and with a blackish margin of variable width on the anterior third ; 

 ventral blackish near base, the outer ray duslry, except on the white 

 filament, the other rays light proximally, dark distally; ventral in 

 some specimens nearly uniform blackish ; pectoral base black on inner 

 surface, silvery on outer surface, the fin gray, with dark punctalations, 

 thickest near base of lower rays. Buccal cavity whitish; branchial 

 cavity lined with whitish or gray, except for a well-defined black 

 bar near margin of opercular membrane, leaving a narrow whitish 

 border; peritoneum silvery, with blackish brown punctulations. 



The firm texture and light, variegated color of this species, and of 

 C. jordani, are correlated with the fact that they live in comparatively 

 warm and shallow water. 



The small specimen from Albatross station 5060 differs from those 

 described in having 12 or fewer series of spines on the scales, and in 

 proportions, as shown in the following table : 



Table of mcasnrements in Jnmdredths of length to anus. 



A Ibalross station 



Total length, mm 



Length to anvs, mm 



Lenigth, head 



Length, orbit 



Width, interoibital 



Width, suborbital 



Orbit to preopercle 



Length, snont 



Length, maxillary 



Length, barbel 



Depth, body 



Width, body 



Anus to anal 



Anus to ventral 



Ventral to isthmus 



Height, second dorsal spine. 

 Length, first dorsal base — 



Interdorsal space 



Length, pectoral 



Length, outer ventral ray... 

 Length, second ventrol ray. 



Scales, above lateral line 



Scales, below lateral line 



Soft rays, first dorsal 



Ventral rays 



Pectoral rays 



21 



25.5 

 51 

 18 

 39 

 47 

 30 

 24 

 5 

 16 



5065 

 295 

 77.5 

 77 

 28 

 18 

 12 

 30 

 27 

 19 

 6 

 54 

 35 



21 

 23 

 54 

 19 

 28 

 56 

 37 

 26 

 5 

 15 



A pseudocaudal developed. 



