LARGER LAUNCE. 143 



Compared with the Lesser Launce this last named fish has 

 the gape proportionally smaller, the mystache less extended; 

 palate without teeth; eye nearer the angle of the mouth. The 

 dorsal fin begins nearer the head and considerably in front of 

 the termination of the pectoral fin. Dr. Gunther counted the 

 oblique folds of the skin as from one hundred and twenty to 

 thirty in number. The number of the fin rays is in both 

 these fishes nearly the same. 



