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maxillary reaching pupil. Cheek entirely scaly, some 
scales on opercle above. Breast naked, body well scaled. 
Body with small scales, the nuchal region naked, scarcely 
carinate. Gill-rakers rather long, 2+15. 
Lateral line evenly curved, the curve high, equal to 
straight part. Scutes small, eighteen with keels; the 
total number of scales on straight part 58. 
Steel blue above, silvery below, with golden reflections 
and shades; fins all pale, tinged with yellowish, none of 
them dusky; no black on pectorals. Axil jet black; 
opercle slightly dusky, blackish within; a dark spot on 
orbit above. 
Specimen described, ten inches long. 
Citula dorsalis (adult) : 
Length 24 inches; head 34 °;idepth 24% 504155 Awe 
About 25 scutes developed. Body moderately compressed, 
with angular outlines. Profile of head rounded, of belly 
somewhat concave, forming an angle at anal similar to 
one at front of dorsal. Eye 5 in head. Maxillary 2%; 
lower ‘jaw included. ‘Teeth in broad villiform bands on 
both jaws and on vomer and palatines. Nostrils large, 
equal, close together. Giull-rakers 3-+14, rather stout, 
shorter than eye. Dorsal spines nearly obsolete, three 
of them present; first dorsal ray filamentous, 134 in body. 
Long anal ray 234 in body. Caudal keel considerably 
elevated, with a small.keel above and below it; scutes not 
sharp. Caudal lobes subequal, about as long as head. 
Pectoral falcate, + longer than head. Ventral short, 3% 
in head. Curve of lateral line low, 1% times in straight 
part, its height 14 its chord. Maxillary broad, with very 
broad supplemental bone, its width % eye. 
Color, silvery, strongly tinged with golden, olive on 
upper parts, pearly reflections below. A large black spot 
in axil, nearly as large as eye. Fins pale. 
