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standard length, are given in table 124. Counts recorded for both 

 H. cUbaiensis and H. brocki are presented in table 125. Dorsal rays 

 XII to XIV,7 to 9; anal 111,5; pectoral i or ii,7 or 8,vi; vertical scale 

 rows crossing lateral Ihie 29 to 32, and pores in lateral line 21 or 22; 

 branched caudal fin rays 6+5. 



Body and head elongate, with the lower jaw projecting and entering 

 profile; tip of lower jaw with a prominent symphyseal knob that fits 

 into a slight concavity of premaxillary at tip of snout ; tongue long and 

 pointed, tip free and elongate; teeth in a band on premaxiUaries and 

 dentaries; anterior tip of lower jaw with teeth on raised symphyseal 

 knob; vomer with villiform teeth; no teeth on palatines; body with 

 ctenoid scales; cheeks, operculum, interorbital, and postorbital parts 

 of head scaled; maxillaries, lower jaw, and snout naked; premaxillary 

 processes forming an elevated triangular area on front of snout, with 

 a deep concavity in front of orbits; interorbital space concave; pairs 

 of cranial spines present as follows: preocular, supraocular, postocular, 

 postfrontal, parietal, nuchal, 1 or 2 minute sphenotics, pterotic, 1 

 posttemporal, humeral, 2 suborbitals, 2 opercular, 3 preopercular, 

 postcleithral; nasal and preorbitals absent. Tips of many cranial 

 spines, some of the pores along lateral line, and numerous scales on 



Table 125. — Counts made on tivo species of Hypomacrus 



body of certain paratypes with little, dark brownish dermal cirri; 

 anterior and posterior nasal openings large, anterior one with a dermal 

 cirrus; gill membrane attached dorsally a little behind tip of humeral 

 spine; gUl rakers rather short, longest at angle of arch, a little shorter 

 than diameter of pupil; seventh dorsal spine usually longest; second 

 anal spine longer and much heavier than third; third or fourth dorsal 

 spine shortest, caudal fin truncate or slightly rounded. 



Color in alcohol. — General coloration blackish or brownish, made up 

 of four vertical dark bars, first at origin of dorsal fin past pectoral 



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