360 RPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [18] 
about 2in head: caudal large and broad, 
double truncate; ventrals 1} in head. 
Color steel bluish above, lower parts 
silvery; no distinct markings. Head 33 
inlength; depth4$. D. IX-I,21; A. II, 
9; scales 10-60 (pores)-10. 
STOLZMANNTI, 18. 
aa. Scales very small; the number of pores in the lateral line 70 to 90, and very 
much less than the number of trans- 
verse rows, which is from 85 to 150; 
teeth of upper jaw in a rather broad 
band, one to four of them usually more 
or less canine-like, the eanines generally 
small,* and sometimes wholly disap- 
pearing with age; lateral teeth of lower 
jaw not much enlarged; gill-rakers usu- 
ally small and short.t 
p. Caudai fin lunate or subtruncate; scales not very 
small; head more or less distinetly con- 
ical, not flattened above; soft dorsal 
with 21 to 23 rays. 
q. Soft dorsal and anal fins wholly scaleless. 
r. Pectoral fin rather long, more than half head; 
flesh firm; scales of sides of head not 
silvery ; head pointed, subeonical, little 
compressed; profile rather steep; snout 
sharp, rather long, 33 in head; maxil- 
lary extending beyond pupil; anteriorly 
on a level with the lower margin of the 
pupil, 24 in head; canines small, be- 
coming obsolete; pharyngeals long and 
slender, with four series of teeth, the 
inner series several times larger than the 
rest; gill-rakers short, 2+7; scales very 
small, those on head little imbedded and 
less silvery than in related species; can- 
dal lunate, its middle rays less than half 
length of head; both anal spines evi- 
dent, the second about half length of 
the rays; color bluish, little silvery; 
everywhere punctulate; young with 
three or four distinct dusky cross-bars ; 
axil and fins dusky; a dusky blotch at 
base of pectoral, extending on whole 
inner face of the fin, Head 33 in length, 
depth 4. D.X-I, 21 to 23; A. II, 9; scales 
12-88-14 wee cice Sac e= tee eee NoBILIs, 19. 
rr. Pectoral fins short, not more than half length 
of head; flesh rather soft; sides of head 
brightly silvery; head very regularly 
conical, pointed, tapering, scarcely com- 
pressed; snout very acute; 3$in head; 
canines quite small, usually but one pres- 

* Rather large in Cestreus microlepidotus. 
t Not examined in Cestreus microlepidotus, of moderate length in C. steindachneri. 
