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lower profile; mandible 12% in head; highest dorsal ray 3; highest 
anal ray 27@; caudal 1%; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; 
pectoral 24%; ventral 4; snout 4 in head, measured from tip of 
upper jaw; eye 714; maxillary 2'/,); interorbital space 10%. 
Body oblong, and greatest depth falling about midway in length. 
Caudal peduncle deep, well compressed. Head rather large, and 
profiles of muzzle when closed about forming a right angle, 
lower obliquely vertical. Snout short. Eye ellipsoid, placed a 
little before first third in head, and lower but little in advance of 
upper. Mouth large, oblique, and gape a little curved. Lips 
rather fleshy. Mandible protruding. Maxillary reaching pos- 
terior margin of pupil of lower eye, and its distal expansion 
about equal to horizontal orbital diameter. Teeth large, conic, 
canine-like and wide-set in front of jaws, becoming reduced pos- 
teriorly more especially above. Interorbital space narrow and 
flattened. Gill-rakers 4 + 15, rather long and slender, longest 
about 7% of horizontal orbital diameter. Scales cycloid, mostly 
with numerous smaller accessory scales. Maxillary scaly above. 
Lateral line arched for about first fourth of its course from gill- 
opening. Origin of dorsal inserted about opposite anterior mar- 
gin of lower orbit and tips of radii free anteriorly. Anal begins 
a trifle before origin of pectoral, and margin of fin a little 
notched. Posterior margin of caudal convex. Pectoral short 
and rather broad. Ventral inserted about midway between pos- 
terior margin of upper orbit and origin of pectoral, and reaching 
base of second anal ray. Color light olive-brown sinistrally, 
variegated with darker and lighter shades. Length 20 inches. 
Beesley’s Point. 
Color when fresh drab-brown, much lighter and variegated 
when alive. Pattern of coloration also apparently subject to 
infinite variation in diffuse mottlings or cloudings. Fins all 
paler, especially basally, and also mottled and becoming dilute 
brownish at tip of each ray. Sinistral or dark side with numerous 
variable ocelli of dark brownish or dusky. In some examples 
they are more numerous than others, also of variable density of 
color. Head in some examples finely specked with dusky or deep 
brownish, also fins. In others caudal with more or less dull 
rosy tints. Still other examples were entirely paler and others 
