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n. Pectoral fins reaching nearly or quite to the tips of ven- 

 trals, their length more than half head. 

 o. Scales small (12-86-X), the number of pores in the 

 lateral line about 70 ; head rather long, 

 compressed and pointed ; maxillary a 

 little more than half head, reaching just 

 past eye ; lateral line becoming straight 

 opposite the vent ; body rather slender, 

 compressed ; eye large, G in head ; pre- 

 maxiMaries in front, entirely below eye ; 

 canines small, two usually present; 

 longest dorsal spine 2 in head ; longest 

 soft ray 2£ ; middle rays of caudal con- 

 siderably produced, 1^ in head; anal 

 spine rather small and stout ; ventrals 

 little more than 2 in head ; pectorals If. 

 Color bluish above, silvery below, upper- 

 parts and especially the middle of the 

 sides punctate with dark points ; upper 

 fins dark, their margins dusky, lining 

 of opercle black ; inside of mouth bright 

 yellow in life. Head 3* in length; 

 depth 4£. D. IX-1, 20 ; A. II, 8. Scales 

 12-66 (pores)-X ; 86 rows of scales. 



Xanthulum, 16. 

 oo. Scales moderate (8-66-18), the pores in the lateral 

 line about 63 ; head large, bluntish ; the 

 snout shorter than in Cestreus stolzmanni, 

 the snout 4 to 4-£ in head ; eye 6J in head ; 

 maxillary nearly half head, reaching well 

 past eye; body rather robust; lateral 

 line becoming straight at a point well in 

 advance of vent ; dorsal spines slender, 

 the longest 2^ in head ; caudal double 

 truncate, the middle rays longer than the 

 head without snout; pectorals nearly 

 reaching tips of ventrals, more than half 

 length of head; second anal spine evi- 

 dent. Color white, somewhat bluish 

 above. Head 3£ in length ; depth 4. D. 

 X-I, 21 ; A. II, 9 ; scales 8-63 (pores)-18 ; 



66 series of scales Albus, 17. 



tin. Pectoral fins short, reaching little past middle of ven- 

 trals, their length not more than half 

 head ; body elongate, somewhat com- 

 pressed; mouth oblique; maxillary 2 }■ 

 iu head, extending to posterior margin 

 of pupil ; snout rather sharp, 4 in head ; 

 canines rather small ; gill-rakers short- 

 ish, 4+7 ; body comparatively slender 

 and elongate ; scales rather large, all 

 strongly ctenoid ; lateral line becoming 

 straight just before front of second dor- 

 sal ; longest dorsal spines 2\ in head ; 

 soft dorsal slightly falcate, the first rays 



