PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 431 

 Table of measurements. 



Locality . 



Extreme length 



Length to end of middle caudal rays . . 

 Body: 



Greatest height 



Greatest width 



Greatest circumference 



Height at origin of anal 



Least height of tail 



Height under second dorsal 



Length of caudal peduncle 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



"Widt h of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Length of operculum 



Length of mandible 



Diameter of or bit 



Dorsal Ispinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Greatest height 



Dorsal {soft} : 



Length of base 



Distance from snout 



Height 



Distance between dorsals 



Anal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base .. .. 



Distance of second anal from snout 



Height at longest ray , 



Caudal : 



Width at caudal toriuaa 



Length of external rays 



Tip to lip of caudal. .'. 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Leng t h 



"Weight, about (pounds) 



Portland, 

 Me., Aug. 15. 



Millimeters. 



3,990 

 is, 78'J 



618 



470 



1,705 



520 



]20 

 220 

 238 



1, 570 

 385 

 223 



, 085 (870) 

 200 

 4:t5 

 300 



1,530 

 500 

 550 



50 

 3,175 



90 

 1,208 



2, 538 

 3S0 



3,125 



340 



500 



730 



1,140 



1,598 

 532 

 COO 



Steindachner has given the following measnrements of two specimens 



obtained by him on the coast of Spain, the largest 3 feet 7 inches in 



length, the smallest much younger and corresponding to the young 



specimen figured by Cuvier and Valenciennes in the Hlstoire Natnrelle 



des Foissons, pi. 225.* 



Table of measurements. 



*Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1868, p. 396. 



