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the dorsal fin 95.16.16, and the anal 115. The pectorals broad and rounded, digitated on 
the margin, and composed of twenty rays; it reaches to the seventeenth ray of the dorsal. 
Ventrals feeble, with four delicate spines in each, enveloped in a thick membrane; these 
spines are 0°6 long. ‘The vent is opposite the twenty-sixth dorsal ray, and the meatus for 
the urine, communicating with a bladder which is 1°3 long, is placed 0°4 behind the vent. 
Color, of the head, dark brown, mixed with green, with lighter hues on the cheeks. rides 
yellow. Chin and inside of the mouth flesh-colored. Sides of the body and tail pale olive or 
salmon-color. Abdomen faintly rosaceous. 'The dorsal fin dark green throughout its whole 
length, lighter along its base, and with a faint yellow border on its margin. Nearly one-half 
of the anal fin, from its commencement, is of a dark green color; the margin tipped with 
greenish yellow, which, about the middle, becomes the universal color of the fin. Pectorals 
light olive-green, becoming darker at the base. 
Length, 20:0. Greatest depth, 2°0. 
Finrays, Dr95.16.16—= 1275 P; 20: V. 4. As 1153 C20. 
Except in color, I can find scarcely any differences between this and the preceding. It was 
first described by Dr. Mitchill, who inadvertently named it ciliatus. If I have enumerated 
aright the soft dorsal rays, a good specific character might be drawn from their number. It 
is invariably smaller than the other species, and is supposed by some ichthyologists to be the 
young. A specimen which is supposed to be the young of the Thick-lipped Eel-pout, and 
which resembles the one now described im its general colors, is noticed by Dr. Storer as 
having all its fins transparent. 
Its habits, and the time of its appearance, are the same as in the preceding species. 
