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HELLER AND SNODGRASS 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE TYPE OF AnteiinartUS tttgUS. 



Catalogue No. 6351 Inland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 



Length in mm.. 



Depth 



Head 



Width of Head. 



Eye 



Interorbital Width 



Maxillary 



Height of First Dorsal Spine 



Height of Second Dorsal Spine. 



Height of Soft Dorsal 



Height of Anal 



Pectoral from Gill-opening 



Ventral 



Caudal 



58 

 53 

 43 

 36 

 6 



13 



25 



9 



ID 

 26 



24 

 31 

 18 



30 



Genus Allector gen. nov. 

 Characters. — Body short, stout, and not much compressed ; head 

 large, cuboidal, armed with a pair of stout supraorbital spines ; mouth 

 large, vertical in position, premaxillary and mandible armed with canine 

 teeth ; vomer and palatines toothless ; soft dorsal and anal fins with bases 

 short, posterior in position ; pectorals geniculate ; ventrals wanting. 



ALLECTOR CHELONI^ sp. nov. 



Fig. I. Allector chelonue. 



Type. — Cat. No. 6342 Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 

 Taken between Clipperton Island and Galapagos Archipelago, 



Diagnosis. — Head large, two and three sevenths in total length, 

 broad and flattened above, with a pair of supraorbital spines ; teeth in 

 both jaws irregular, not greatly enlarged, longest equaling diameter of 

 pupil; vertical fins filamentous at tip; D. 3 ; A. 3 ; C. 9; P. iS. 



Description of the Type. — Head two and three sevenths in length ; 

 depth two and two thirds ; eye contained seven times in length of head ; 



