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noid; membranes of soft dorsal and anal scaled for nearly half their 
height ; color lustrous bluish gray above, silvery below; middle of sides 
with indistinct lengthwise streaks formed by clusters of dark dots in 
the centers of the scales; snout and tip of lower jaw blackish; a dark 
blotch on opercle above; sides of head bright silvery ; fins ight straw 
color; upper half of pectorals dusky: spinous dorsal finely speckled 
with black; axil brown above; lining of opercle black above; iris 
bright yellow ; head 3 in length ; depth 34; D. X-I, 24 or 25; A. II, 8. 
ROSIER O-G2H7 5 ain ois heccp en coe okecceeet Ones were ene ARCHIDIUM, 40. 
aa. Teeth of the lower jaw unequal, chiefly biserial, those of the inner series some- 
what enlarged; no distinct ¢ anines; second anal spine moderate or 
large ; preorbital narrow (Bairdiella). 
c. Second anal spine moderate, 24 in head, not as long as the soft rays, not reach- 
ing to tip of last ray when depressed; mouth large, somewhat oblique, 
the premaxillary on the level of lower part of the eye; maxillary 
reaching middle of eye, 2? in head; body oblong, compressed, the back 
a little elevated, the profile depressed over the eyes; snout prominent, 
bluntish, as long as eye, which is 44 in head; upper teeth in two series, 
the outer row slender, enlarged ; lower teeth in two series, the inner 
larger, similar to the outer in upper jaw ; preopercle serrate, the teeth 
near the angle larger; the lowest and largest directed downward; gill- 
rakers slender, rather long, 84-16; scales on head cycloid; base of 
anal little oblique; ventral outline rather regularly rounded; dorsal 
spines slender, the highest 2} in head ; caudal long, double truncate ; 
pectorals about as long as the ventrals, 1? in head; soft dorsal and 
anal scaled at least half their height. Color greenish above, silvery 
below ; back and sides more or less densely punctate with dark dots 
(especially in northern specimens), these forming narrow, somewhat 
irregular streaks along the sides; fins plain, mostly yellow in life. 
Head 3 in length; depth 3. D. XI-I, 22; A. II, 10. Scales 8-52-8. 
CuRyYSuURA, 41. 
ec. Second anal spine very long, nearly or quite # length of head, reaching when 
depressed beyond the tip of the last soft ray; base of anal fin very 
oblique, making an abrupt angle with the straightish ventral outline. 
d. Mouth terminal, very oblique, the premaxillary anteriorly on the level of the 
middle of the eye; body subrhomboidal and angular in outline ; profile 
steep, slightly convex; snoutshort, 5in head; mouth moderate, the max- 
illary reaching middle of eye, 22 in head; teeth in upper jaw in two or 
three series, the outer considerably enlarged, all of them more or less de- 
pressible ; gill-rakers long, 8-+ 16; dorsal spines stout, the highest 
about 2 in head ; second anal spine enorméus, larger than in any other 
species, 17in head; longer than any of the rays ; second anal spine 
and the anterior rays extending beyond the tips of the last rays; the 
margin of the fin concave, ventrals slightly longer than pectorals, 1} in 
head ; opercular scales and some of the scales of the cheek and top of the * 
head ctenoid, those of the interorbital space and a few on the lower parts 
of the cheek and opercle cycloid; color bluish-gray above and on 
sides, silvery below; a dark, ill-defined bluish-gray blotch on opercle ; 
mouth yellow within ; black towards the tip of the lower jaw ; spinous 
dorsal with black punctulations and a black margin, soft dorsal dusky 
yellow; caudal and anterior rays of the anal brighter yellow; caudal 
and membrane between anal spine and first ray with black dots; axil 
of pectorals and inner membrane of the upper rays of the pectoral 
brownish, Head 3}in length ; ict 34. D. X-I1, 23; A.II, & Scales 
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