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ocular; head depressed, its height at the base of the occipital about 

 equal to eye and postorbital portion of the head; dorsal spine nearly 

 equal to length of head, the teeth on the two faces of about equal size; 

 humeral process narrow, reaching to middle of the pectoral spine which 

 is equal to the head and the opercular membrane, reaching nearly to 



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Fig. I. Doras lentiginosiis Eig. J^ nat. size. 



No. 7048. 



Type CM. 



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Fig. 2. Dorsal 

 spine. Nat. size. 



the ventrals which reach to the anal; anal with the seventh ray highest, 

 the part in front as well as the part behind it truncate. Caudal fulcra 

 very strong, extending to opposite the anterior margin of the fourth 

 lateral scute counting from behind; caudal forked, the lobes a little 

 shorter than the head; adipose fin short, fading out forward. Hooks 

 of lateral scutes strongest just behind the adipose; the plate just below 

 the end of the adipose highest, decreasing in height both backward and 

 forward. Surface of the scutes striate, the striae ending in spinules; 

 naked portions of sides of head and body profusely covered with 

 minute warts. Dark brown, mottled. Exposed surfaces of the bones 

 of the head of the type with radiating or promiscuous granulations. 

 Granulations much less developed in the paratype in which there is a 

 well-developed median groove on the head and occipital process. 



