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 Table of measurements. 



Locality . 



Extreme length , 



Length to end of middle caudal rays . . 

 Body: 



Greatest height 



Greatest width 



Greatest circumference 



Height at origin of anal 



Least height of tail 



Height under second dorsal 



Length of caudal peduncle 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



"Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Length of operculum 



Length of mandible 



Diameter of orbit 



.Dorsal Ispinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Gieatest height 



Dorsal (soft) : 



Length of base 



Distance from snout 



Height 



Distance between dorsals , 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Distance of second anal from snout 



Height at longest ray 



Caudal: 



Width at caudal torinse 



Lengi h of external rays 



Tip to lip of caudal 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



"Weight, about (pounds) 



Portland, 

 Me., Aug. J 5. 



Millimeters. 



3, 990 

 3, 780 



638 

 470 

 1,705 

 520 

 ]20 

 220 

 238 



1,570 

 385 

 223 

 , 085 (870) 

 200 

 4;t5 

 300 



1,530 

 500 

 550 



50 

 3,175 



90 

 1,208 



2,538 



3oO 



3,125 



340 



500 



730 



1, 140 



1,598 

 532 

 COO 



Steindachner has given the following measnrements of two specimens 



obtained by him on the coast of Spain, the largest 3 feet 7 Indies in 



length, the smallest much younger and corresponding to the young 



specimen figured by Cuvier and Valenciennes in the Histoirc Xaturelle 



des Poissoiis, pi. 225.* 



Table of measurements. 



Total length 



Length of head 



Length of intermaxillary from anterior margin of eyes 



Length of mouth-opening from point of intermaxillary to posterior end of upper 



.jaw 



r.readth of forehead 



1 engt h of under jaw 



Height of body 



L'litrtli of pectoral 



Ueiglit of dorsal at first cleft rays 



Greatest height of dorsal 



Length of base of dorsal 



Height of anal 



Length of base of anal 



Inches. 



43 

 20.7 



15.0^ 

 17.2 

 1.9 

 6.0 

 4.6 

 5.8 

 6.2 



14.4 

 3.4 

 4.6 



B. 



Inches. 



24.6 

 9.7 



8.0 

 l.lj 



2.3^ 

 3.5i 



f.l? 



i.'ii 



» Sitzb, Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1868, p. 396. 



