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diately below symphysis, a pair on either side, those outermost 

 farthest apart, a row of minute indistinct j)ores on either side, extend- 

 ing from halfway back on mandible to its articulation. 



Air bladder with 

 twenty-four or 

 twenty - five 1 ateral 

 appendages, arbo- 

 rescent anteriorly, 

 less so posteriorly, 

 the posterior end 

 with four or five un- 

 branched append- 

 ages, the body of air 

 bladder terminating 

 in a long point. 



Color in alcohol 

 silvery, darker 

 above than below, 

 sheath of each scale 

 above level of lower 

 pectoral rays with a 

 central dark spot 

 forming stripes 

 along each row of 

 scales equal to half 

 diameter of pupil in 

 width, from occiput 

 to posterior half of 

 soft dorsal obliquely 

 upward, that from 

 scapular flap rising 

 to first soft rays; 

 three lowermost un- 

 der posterior half of 

 soft dorsal become 

 parallel to lateral 

 line and pass to end 

 of caudal peduncle, 

 those above still 

 oblique to end of 

 dorsal. Those lines 

 below lateral line 

 nearly parallel to 

 body axis, but rising somev/hat to meet lines above until opposite anal 

 fin, where they become parallel to lateral line. Scales along soft 

 dorsal base colorless, breaking scale lines which are continued on 



