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tical of the pectorals, three lines aud one-half. The length of the hend 

 is slightly more than one-seventh of the total length. The greatest 

 width of the head is rather less than one-third of its length. Body 

 naked, attenuate, compressed. Facial outline rugose. Eye moderate: 

 horizontal diameter of the eye-cup, one and three-quarter lines; vertical 

 diameter, one and one-quarter lines. Gape of mouth wide. Lower jaw 

 shorter, and received within the upper. Cardiform teeth of irregular 

 size in both jaws, vomer, aud palatines; those of the latter largest. 

 Branchiostegals seven, inflated, united below. Vent thoracic. Pec- 

 torals originating at the upper angle of the operculum, three lines in ex- 

 tent, of delicate soft rays. Dorsal indistinct, commencing in a groove 

 at about the vertical of the twentieth anal ray, continuous to caudal 

 extreme; when in conjunction with the anal, it forms a small filamentous 

 tip. Anal prominent, commencing immediately behind the vent, in 

 advance of the vertical to the upper angles of the operculum, and extend- 

 ing to the caudal extreme. About its centre, it is equal in depth to that 

 of the body at the same position. Owing to the delicate texture of the 

 fins, it is impossible to determine the number of rays, but those of the 

 anal exceed one hundred and forty. Color when dried, out of spirit, 

 golden-yellow. The body transparent, showing the vertebra within, a 

 condition, according to General Lefroy, equally observable in life." — 

 Jones. , 



The genus proposed by Mr. Jones has not yet been defined, and the 

 name Lefroyia can be adopted only provisionally. 



BLENNIIDJE. 



LABROSOMUS NUCHIPINNIS, [Quoy & Gaimard) Poey. 

 Molly Miller. 



Clinus nucliipbmis, Quoy & Gaimakd, Voy. Uranie et Physicienne, Zool. 1824, 255. — 



GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iii, 1861, 262. 

 Labrosomua nucMpintiis, Poey, Rep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 308. 

 Clhius 2)ectinifer,CiJV.& VAL.,Hist. Nat. Poiss. xi, 1836,374 (female). — Mtjix. & Trosch. 



iu Schoinburgk's Hist. Barbados, 1848, 671. — Castelxau, Anim. Noiiv. &c. 



Am^riqiie du Sud, 1855, Poiss. 26. 

 Ldbrisomus pectinifer, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes &c. 1839, 277.— Cope, Trans. Am. 



Phil. Soc. 1870, 473. 

 Lahrosomus peciinifer, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 105.— Poey, Mem. Hist. 



Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, 381. 

 Climis capiUatus, Cuv. & Val., op. cit. 377 (male). — MtJLL. & Tr.oscn., 1. c. 

 Lalrisomus cajilUatus, Swaixson, 1. c. 



