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slightly. Of 22 females examined, 3 had 3 pjdoric coeca each and the 

 remainder but 2. Of 22 males tt had 3 coeca and the remainder 2. In 

 all the specimens of each species when but 2 pyloric coeca occur they 

 are located 1 on either side of the coecum. The 2 appendages are 

 never opposite. In all cases the right coecum is located about its width 

 in front of the left. When 3 appendages are present the third is 



Cut 5. — Alimentary canal of TypMich- 

 thys subterraneus, side view, showing 

 gall-sac. 



Cut 6. — Amblyopsis spelxus, showing 

 three pyloric cojca. 



alwaj^s just back of the normal one, the 2 normal appendages retaining 

 their usual positions. Cut 7 shows the normal position of the pyloric 

 coeca {!*) in AnihUjopsis. Cut 6 shows the 3 coeca in another speci- 

 men. But 1 specimen of Troglicfithys rosse Eigenmann was examined 

 and this had 2 pyloric coeca (cut 9). 



The general characters of the Ainblyoj^sldai may be summed up as 

 follows: Body varying considerably in shape in the different genera, 



Cut 7.— Alimentary canal of Amblyopsis spelxus. A, air bladder; G, gall-sac; P, pyloric coeca; 



S, spleen. 



but in all rather heavy anteriorly and the posterior portion com- 

 pressed; head more or less depressed, its vipper surface quite flat in 

 AmNyapsis; mouth large, the lower jaw generally projecting beyond 

 the upper; premaxillary not strictly protractile, although not firmly 

 joined to the ethmoid, and forming the entire margin of the upper 

 jaw; bands of villiform teeth on the dentary, premaxillary, and pala- 

 tine bones; branchiostegal rays 6; gillrakers very short; gill mem- 



