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separate at basal and apical areas, evidently a condition of age. 

 Both liave the same fin formula, though the West Indian fish agrees 

 with Jordan and Evermann's Hawaiian ^ in the slightly shorter 

 pectoral, though at present without any traces of the four dark spots 

 on the back below dorsal as shown in the figure. They mention but 

 three blotches as sometimes present. Steindachner notes an ex- 

 ample from Acapulco Bay, Mexico, 738 mm. long, but dark dorsal 

 spots are not mentioned.^ 



SELAR CRUMENOPHTHALMUS (Bloch). 



Head, 3; depth, 3^ to 3^; D. VIII— I, 25; A. II— I, 22; scales, 

 50 to 51 — 40 to 41 in lateral line; snout, 3 J to Sh in head, measured 

 from snout tip; eye, 2| to 3; maxillary, 2^ to 2^; interorbital, 4J to 

 4J; rakers 11 to 13 +27 or 28, lanceolate, long as filaments, or 2 in 

 eye. Two examples, 223 and 254 mm. 



A comparison of scales and other characters, as gill-rakers, radii, 

 scutes, etc., reveals no distinctions other than individual, in examples 

 from the Philippines and Hawaiian Islands. The circuli on the scales 

 are very fine and mostl}^ continuous where approximating. 



CEPHALOPHOLIS TAENIOPS (Valenciennes). 



Head, 2f; depth, 3^; D. IX, 15, i; A. Ill, 9, i; scales, 107 along 

 and above lateral line to caudal base, and 8 more on latter; 70 pores 

 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 13 scales above 

 lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 26 below to spinous anal origin; 

 snout 3f in head, measured from upper jaw tip; eye, 6; maxillary, 

 about 2J; interorbital, 5f. Body well compressed, elongate, also 

 caudal peduncle. Head compressed, flattened sides slightly approxi- 

 mate above, and upper profile little concave above nostrils. Snout 

 slightly broader than long. Eye high, well advanced or center near 

 first third in head. Mouth large, lower jaw well protruded. Maxil- 

 lary to hind pupil edge, expansion If in eye. Teeth in rather wide 

 bands, pair of canines above and double pair below in front. Lower 

 teeth mostly larger, in three or four rows, graduated to inner row 

 which longest, and all but outer row depressible inwards. Patch of 

 large inner depressible teeth each side in front of upper jaw. Sides 

 of upper jaw with outer row of slightly larger erect teeth, and inner 

 row of vilhform ones. Vomer and palatines each with row of minute 

 or villiform teeth. Tongue pointed, free. Interorbital broadly con- 

 vex. Hind preopercle edge minutely and obsoletely denticulate, but 

 ver>^ slightly enlarged at angle, which rounded. Rakers iv, 4 +11 vr, 

 lanceolate, slightly longer than filaments, or 1| in eye. Scales small, 



' Bull U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903, p. 125, flg. 40. 

 2 Sitz, Ak. Wiss. Wien., vol. 72, abth. 1, 1875, p. 64. 



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