NO. 220!. FISHEH FROM WEST AFRICA— FOWLER. 253 



three-fourths of filaments, or 1^ in eye. Scales with 9 or 10 basal 

 radii. Cheek with three rows of scales. Apparently no axillary 

 ventral flap, and three scales between depressed spinous dorsal tip 

 and soft dorsal origin. A few scales on front of anal basaUy. Spinous 

 dorsal inserted about midway between front pupil edge and caudal 

 base; fii-st spine longest, or 1| in head. Soft dorsal inserted very 

 slightly nearer caudal base than spinous doi-sal origin; fu-st branched 

 ray, 1| in head. Anal inserted slightly before soft doi-sal; fu'st 

 branched ray, 1? in head. Caudal about equals head; pectoral, 1^; 

 ventral, 1|. Color in alcohol with back, pale olive; sides and below 

 pale with silvery-white tints. Hind edge of median caudal rays 

 tinged with dusky; fins otherwise dull brownish and lower ones paler. 

 Iris, whitish. Length, 105 mm. 



It differs a little from Boulenger's account, likely due to age, in the 

 snout slightly shorter than the eye. Compared with Mediterranean 

 examples of Liza aurata (Risso) it agrees in the long pectoral and 

 seiTate preorbital, though the rakers are 35 +46, in the adults 40+70, 

 which shorter and though finely lanceolate, about three-fourtlis in 

 young to two-thirds in adults in filaments. The Mediterranean 

 species has scales with more obtuse apical denticles, lower or slightly 

 less concealed. Both have 9 or 10 basal radii, reaching 12 or 13 in 

 the Mediterranean, and always with very fine circuli. 



LIZA CRANDISQUAMiS (Valenciennes). 



Head, 3? to 3f ; depth, 3| to 3|; D. IV— I, 8; A. Ill, 9; scales, 

 28 or 29 from shoulder to caudal base and 5 or 6 larger on latter; 10 

 scales transversely between soft dorsal and anal origins; 20 to 23 

 predorsal scales; snout, S^- to 4^ in head; eye, 4 to 4-|; maxillary, 

 3| to 4; interorbital, 2^ to 2|. Elongate, well compressed, deepest 

 at anal origin. Caudal peduncle well compressed; least depth, 1 to 

 1} its length or 2| in head. Head width. If to If its length. Snout 

 broad; length about half its width. Eye advanced, before center in 

 head length. Mouth broad. Teeth extremely minute, rudimentary, 

 few above laterally, slightly more developed in smaller example. 

 Maxillary end exposed little; reaches eye. Nostrils close, front one 

 about midway in snout length. Interorbital broadly convex. Pre- 

 orbital conspicuously denticulate. Rakers, 34+42, finely lanceolate, 

 about two-thirds giU-filaments and latter 1^ in eye. Scales with 

 8 to 11 basal striae. Cheek with four rows of scales. Ventral with- 

 out axillary scaly flap and two scales between depressed spinous 

 dorsal tip and soft doi*sal origin. Small scales over base of front anal 

 lobe and along front edge of soft doreal. Spinous dorsal inserted 

 about midway between front pupil edge and caudal base, midway be- 

 tween hind pupil edge and caudal base in smaller example; first 

 spine, 1§ in head. Soft dorsal inserted midway between spinous 



