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jaw svith posterior end reaching just below anterior margin of lower 

 eye; nasal tentacle a little more than half the diameter of eye; scales 

 all ctenoid, a fringe of slender fleshly papillae from chin along lower 

 edge of opercular bones; blind side of head largely lacking these 

 papillae except in region close around mouth; lateral line on blind 

 side with dorsal branch following upper outline of head along base 



Table 128. — Measurements of Aseraggodes smithi, A. whitakeri, and A. melano- 

 stictus expressed in thousandths of the standard length 



Characters 



smithi 



whitakeri 



melanostictus 



Standard length in mm 



Depth of body 



Length of head 



Length of snout 



Diameter of eye 



Postorbital length 



Upper jaw 



Depth of caudal peduncle... 

 Length of longest dorsal ray 

 Length of longest anal ray. . . 

 Length of middle caudal ray 

 Length of pelvic ray 



18.5 

 390 

 243 



81 



65 

 130 



87 

 119 

 157 

 124 

 260 



92 



38 

 395 

 237 



55 



58 

 124 



53 

 118 

 145 

 142 

 290 

 132 



39 



435 



262 



57 



46 



85 

 128 

 131 

 123 

 205 

 101 



Figure 150. — Aseraggodes whitakeri, new species, holotype, USNM 141765, from Rongelap 

 Atoll. Drawn by A. M. Awl. 



of dorsal fin around to base of 32nd dorsal ray; pelvic fins long, reach- 

 ing to fourth anal ray, narrow, their bases narrow, the base of right 

 slightly longer than left. Left slightly displaced, both pelvic fins 

 free; anal papiUa in midline between base of pelvic and insertion of 

 first anal ray, closer to latter; dorsal and anal rays nearly all branched 

 near tips. 



Color in alcohol. — Light yellowish brown with 3 indistinct, small, 

 reddish brown spots along dorsal margin of back, 3 along lateral line, 



