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inner edge with 7 to 9 subequal antrorse serrluse,* the 

 outer with a strong donticle directed forward near its base. 

 Occiput covered with smooth skin. Lateral line median 

 and conspicuous. 



Origin of spinous dorsal somowhait nearer to soft dorsal 

 than to tip of snout ; spinous dorsal high, the first spine 

 terminating in a filament, which extends to the last ray 

 of the soft dorsal ; the other spines not filamentous, the 

 membrane of the last, which equa»ls the last ray, not quite 

 reaching the soft dorsal, the base of which is somewhat 

 longer than its distance from the tip of the snout ; last 

 ray longest, extending slightly beyond or not quite to the 

 base of the caudal. An?J originating below the 2nd dorsal 

 ray, its base less than its distance from the tip of the 

 mandible ; la,st ray not nearly reaching so far back a,s that 

 of the soft dorsal. Caudal peduncle distally fusiform, 

 its least depth 1-3 in the eye-diameter. Pectoral inserted 

 below the posterior half of the spinous dorsal, the middle 

 rays longest, extending to below the 3rd or 4th dorsal 

 ray. Ventral reaching beyond or not quite to the origin 

 of the anal. 



Gill-openings superior, opposite to the origin of the 

 dorsal, further apart than the outer borders of the eyes, 

 and midway between the eye and the pectoral fin. 



Golden brown above, dull yellow beloAv, the throat 

 and ventral region silvery ; back and sides above the lateral 

 line with numerous lilac annuli about as large as the gill- 

 opening, and often crowded together so as to form clusters 

 of considerable size ; some of the annuli have a blackish 

 central dot ; a broad dusky band across the peduncle ; 

 an irregular series of da.rk brown spots along the middle 

 of the side just below the lateral line. Upper eyelids and 

 occiput blackish. Spinous dorsal violet, with oblique 

 wavy lilac dark-edged cross-bands, the anterior spine and 

 its filament blackish ; soft dorsal and anal j^ellowish gray, 

 the former with three series of oblong violet spots, the 

 membrane of the last ray of the latter clouded ; upper 



* The armature of the preopercular spine is so imperceptibly graduated 

 between a single strong recurved spinule and fine serrulee that I cannot see 

 my way, in the absence of additional characters, to admit Calliurichthys 

 Jordan & Fowler (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxv, 1903, p. 941) as a valid genus 

 <or even a well marked subgenus. 



