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STORY OF TIIK DEVIL-FISH — GILL 



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names Ccplialoptcn'dcc, PtcroccpJialidcr, MohuUdcv, and Maiitidcc 

 have been given. Mantidce is that used for it by most recent Anieri- 



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>v. 









w 





Fig. 50. 



Figs. 49 and 50. — The Devil-fish. After Jordan and Evermann. 

 (With reduced tail.) 



•can ichthyologists, as Jordan and Evermann, but it had been previ- 

 ously taken for a family of insects. MohiiUdcc may be used here. 

 "The essential external characters of the family follow : 



