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about 2 in head ; caudal large and broad, 

 double truncate ; veutrals 1 §• in head. 

 Color steel bluish above, lower parts 

 silvery ; no distinct markings. Head 3f 

 in length ; depth 41. D. IX-1, 21 ; A. II, 

 9; scales 10-60 (pores)-lO. 



Stolzmaxni, 18. 

 art. Scales very small ; the number of pores in the lateral line 70 to 90, and very 



much less than the number of trans- 

 verso rows, which is from 85 to 150 ; 

 teeth of upper jaw iu a rather broad 

 band, one to four of them usually more 

 or less canine-like, the canines generally 

 small,* and sometimes wholly disap- 

 pearing with age ; lateral teeth of lower 

 jaw not much enlarged; gill-rakers usu- 

 ally small and short. t 

 p. Caudal fin lunate or subtruucate ; scales not very 

 small; head more or less distinctly con- 

 ical, not flattened above; soft dorsal 

 with 21 to 23 rays. 

 g. Soft dorsal and anal fins wholly scaleless. 



r. Pectoral fin rather long, more than half head ; 

 flesh firm ; scales of sides of head not 

 silvery ; head pointed, subcorneal, little 

 compressed; profile rather steep; snout 

 sharp, rather long, 3f in head ; maxil- 

 lary extending beyond pupil ; anteriorly 

 on a level with the lower margin of the 

 pupil, 2£ in head; canines small, be- 

 coming obsolete ; pharyngeals long and 

 slender, with four series of teeth, the 

 inner series several times larger than the 

 rest ; gill-rakers short, 2+7 ; scales very 

 small, those on head little imbedded and 

 less silvery than in related species; cau- 

 dal lunate, its middle rays less than half 

 length of head ; both anal spines evi- 

 dent, the second about half length of 

 the rays; color bluish, little silvery; 

 everywhere punctulate ; young with 

 three or four distinct dusky cross-bars ■ 

 axil and fins dusky ; a dusky blotch at 

 base of pectoral, extending on whole 

 inner face of the fin . Head 3£ in length . 

 depth 4. D. X-I, 21 to 23; A. II, 9; scales 



12-88-14 Nobilis, 19. 



rr. Pectoral fius short, not more than half length 

 of head ; flesh rather soft ; sides of head 

 brightly silvery; head very regularly 

 conical, pointed, tapering, scarcely com- 

 pressed; snout very acute ; 3* in head; 

 canines quite small, usually but one pres- 



* Rather large in Cestreus microlepidotus. 



tNot examined iu Cestreus microlepidotus, of moderate length in C. steindachneri. 



