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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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'' Badial formula.— B. VI; D. VII, 15; A. II, 13; C. 18; P. II, 15: V. I, 

 5; L. Lat., 93; L. Trans., 8+30. 



^^ Color. — The operculiiiu, preoperculum, upper surface of bead, aud 

 major portion of tlie body have numerous greenish-yellow spots, the 

 largest of which are about one-third as long as the eye. Upon the cau- 

 dal rays are about eight stripes of the same color, some of them con- 

 nected by cross-blotches. The upper part of the body has a violaceous 

 tint, and the lower parts are whitish, with some areas of yellow. The 

 anal and ventral fins are whitish. The pectorals have the tint of the 

 upper surface of the body, with some yellow upon their posterior sur- 

 faces. The soft dorsal has an upper broad band of violaceous, and a 

 narrow, basal portion of whitish. Many of the rays have upon them 

 a yellow stripe; there are some spots the same color, especially upon 

 the anterior portion of the fin. 



"Note. — In the table of measurements the unit of comparison is the 

 length to the origin of the middle caudal rays." 



Table of measurements. 



Current number of specimen. 

 Locality 



22889 



80 miles S. byE. of 



Neman's Land. 



Millime- 

 ters. 



Length to orgin of middle caudal rays 



Length to end of middle caudal rays 



Body: 



Greatest height (at ventrals) 



Greatest -width 



Least height of tail *. 



Length of caudal peduncle 



Head : 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



Width of interorbital area — 



Length of snout 



Length of operculum 



Length of upper jaw 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Long diameter of eye 



Dorsal (adipose) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Greatest height 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length of first spine (possibly broten) 



Length of second spino 



Length of third spino 



Length of fourth spine 



Length of fifth spine (possibly broken) 



Length of sixth spine , 



Length of seventh spine 



Dorsal (soft) : 



Length of base 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray (thirteenth) 



Length of last ray 



An.al : 



Distance from snout 



Longtli of base 



Length of first spine 



Length of second spine 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray (eleventh) 



Length of last raj 



692 



788 



212 



100 



60 



100 



230 



114 



56 



85 



77 



105 



108 



103 



36 



143 

 85 



48 



240 

 100 

 20 

 57 

 63 

 67 

 66 

 67 

 70 



300 

 65 



102 

 48 



416 

 220 

 29 

 52 

 71 

 93 

 64 



lOOths 

 of length. 



30.6 

 14.4 

 8.67 

 14.4 



33 

 16.5 



8 



12.28 

 11 

 15 



15.6 

 15 



5.2 



20.66 

 12.28 



7 



34.88 

 14.4 

 3 



8.24 

 9.1 

 9.68 

 9.54 

 9.68 

 10 



43.35 

 9.4 



14.74 



7 



60 



31.79 

 4.2 

 7.5 



10.20 



13.44 

 7 8 



