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63. MELETTA CCERULEA; Gid. 

 Gen. Kep. 330. Plate LXXV, Figs. 5—7. 



Spec. Char. — Body slender, elongated, sub-fusiform in profile. Head constituting more than the fifth of the total length. 

 Posterior extremity of maxillar bone extending to a vertical line drawn through the middle of the orbit. Eye large and 

 sub-circular ; its diameter entering four times and a half in the length of the side of the head. Anterior margin of dorsal fin 

 loarer the extremity of the snout than the insertion of the caudal. Base of anal fin entering about ten times in the total length' 

 unsertion of ventrals opposite the posterior third of the base of the dorsal fin. Bluish black above ; yellowish or whitish 

 beneath, with metallic reflects. Fins unicolor. 



956. San Francisco, California. Dr. C. B. Kennerly. 



64. SCAPHIRHYNCHUS PLATYEHYNCHUS, Bd.— Shovel-nose Sturgeon. 



Gen. Rep. 357. 



Spec. Char. — Head terminating into a depressed, oval, spade-shaped snout. Lips provided with eight warty, fringed tufts. 

 Barbels nearer the mouth than the extremity of the enout, and fringed also Anal fin nearer the vent than the caudal fin. 

 Brownish above; whitish beneath. 



985 and 986. Missouri river. Dr. Geo. G. Shumard. 



