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BULLETIN 150, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Peritoneum black; stomach pale. 



From the original description: D. about 56; A. about 42; P. 15-1- 

 1-1-1-5. Depth 5 in the total length; head about 6. Orbit less 

 than three in the head. Evidently the form and proportion as in P. 

 hathyhius. Body compressed; caudal section thick, deep anteriorly 

 and for some distance back of the body, then decreasing in depth 

 rapidly and becoming thin and slender. Head as broad and deep as 

 long, subquadrangular in transsection across the orbit; interorbital 

 flattened. Cheeks swollen. Snout blunt, slighty overhanging the 



FiGUEE 101.— Parauparis grandiceps. Teeth trom type 



mouth. Mouth wide. Maxillary extending below the entire orbit. 

 Teeth small, short, robust, blunt, subcorneal, with broad bases, 

 firmly attached, in one series on each jaw except near tip of mandible 

 where a second row may be present, larger toward the angle of the 

 mouth. 



Upper lobe of the pectoral of 15 rays, connected with the lower 

 lobe by four short rays; lower lobe of five rays, nearly as long as the 

 upper lobe; the four short rays occupying a space equal to the orbit, 

 connected by membrane. Total length 10 inches. Color dark brown 

 or black. 



