ICHTHYOLOGICAL ITEMS.— McCULLOCH. 



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shown in the accompanying figure ; the intervening spaces are scaly. Eyes small, 

 the upper being half its length in advance of the lower ; interocular space scaly, 

 a little more than an eye-diameter wide. Upper nostrils near the lip, the anterior 



Text -fig. 2. 

 Synaptura salinarum Ogilby. Nat. Size. 



in a short tube which does not reach backward to the posterior ; lower anterior 

 nostril hidden in a bunch of cirri above the middle of the upper lip, the posterior 

 in a tube beneath the upper eye. Microscopic teeth on the left side of each jaw. Mouth 

 rather large, reaching backward to below the middle of the lower eye ; lower lip 

 with some minute tubercles, not fringed. 



Text, fig. 3. 

 Synaptura salinarum Ogilby. Upper and under surfaces of head X 3. 



Dorsal fin commencing above the middle of the snout : its rays increase to the 

 middle of its length, and then decrease again backAvard ; its posterior portion is 



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