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present in 5. gobioides, of which a good composite sample was examined. 

 It is also not present in the specimens examined of the other three 

 percophidid species treated here, but the available samples are not 

 adequate for a final determination of this point in the latter species.) 

 Lateral line sloping downward directly behind posterior margin of 

 head or continued horizontally and beginning to slope at some dis- 

 tance behind head (only species having variants showing the latter 

 conditions, both variations sometimes shown on the two sides of the 

 same specimen). 



Measurements of five specimens 241-261 mm. in standard length 

 and five specimens 142-167 mm. in same length, the latter in paren- 

 theses: Caudal 19.5 in 1 (22 in 1), pectoral 21.0-22.5 (22.0-23.5), 



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Figure 120. — Bemhrops anatirostris, from a paratype (USNM 157735) 261 mm. in standard 

 length, about 315 mm. long, from off Cape San Bias, Fla. (Drawn by Mildred H. 

 Carrington.) 



pelvic 14.2-15.7 (15.1-16.2), depth 12.7-14.2 (12.8-14.7), peduncle 

 5.0-5.8 (5.0-5.7), head 38.5-41.5 (36-37), maxillary 14.2-16.0 (14.2- 

 14.6), snout 12.5-13.2 (11.3-12.2), eye 8.1-9.7 (8.4-8.9). The ratio 

 of the eye in the snout is shown in table 4. 



With a lengthwise, somewhat irregular row of about 10 diffuse 

 irregidar spots running along lateral line and continued forward under 

 its anterior arch; the spots of various sizes and shapes and irregidarly 

 spaced, some of them doubled; fleshy pectoral base and anterior part 

 of opercle with a silvery wash; anal whitish with a supramarginal 

 blackish band; other fins more or less dusky, the pigment somewhat 

 better developed distally; filament of second dorsal spine in male 

 black. 



Holotype: USNM 155470. Pelican Sta. 9; lat. 29°02' N., long. 

 88°45'30" W.; east of the Mississippi Delta; 170 fathoms; male 235 

 mm. in standard length, the caudal damaged, approximately 284 mm. 

 long. 



Paratypes : 1 1 specimens 117-245 mm. in standard length obtained 

 with the holotype (USNM 155471). Also, 29 specimens 58-271 mm. 



