414 



KAMAKICHI KBHINOUTE: 



Body eloDgated, fusi- 

 form, covered with sm.iU 

 thin scales. TLe cheeks 

 are covered with many 

 small scales. Top of the 

 head flat, and the greater 

 part of the frontals is direct- 

 ly covered by the skin. 

 Eyes Ifu-ge. Yoaer flat- 

 tened, villous teeth in a 

 median group. Occijjital 

 crest low. Opisthotic 



fonts a small portion at 

 the posterior dorsal portion 

 of the sknll. No auxihaiy 

 intermuscular bone. The 

 first dorsal intei-spinous 

 bone seems to lielong to the 

 myotome of the second 

 vertebra, as in the case 

 of the Scombridae. The 

 secoud dorsal and anal are 

 covered entirely with elon- 

 gated uaiTow scales. The 

 vtntial or the external side 

 of iTcctorals is also covered 

 with similai- scales. Teelh 

 in jaws are small with 

 ti-eucliant edges, ulxnit 27 

 in tlio upper, and alx)ut 

 20 Ju the loW(T. The 

 condylar facet of tk' 

 lÄsiocci])itnl is shghtly 

 liollow and ubhquo. Arti- 



^ 



■8 





I 

 I 



•s 



a 

 p 





\ ■6'.'- t 



