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noid ; ruembraues of soft dorsal and anal scaled for nearly half their 

 height ; color lustrous bluish gray above, silvery below; middle of sides 

 with indistinct lengthwise streaks formed by clusters of dark dots in 

 the centers of the scales ; snout and tip of lower jaw blackish; a dark 

 blotch on opercle above; sides of head bright silvery ; tins light straw 

 color ; Tipper half of pectorals dusky : spinous dorsal finely speckled 

 with black; axil brown above; lining of opercle black above; iris 

 bright yellow ; head 3 in length ; depth 3i ; D. X-I, 24 or 25; A. II, 8. 



Scales 9-52-7 Archiditjm, 40. 



aa. Teeth of the lower jaw unequal, chiefly biserial, those of the inner series some- 

 what enlarged ; no distinct c anincs ; second anal spine moderate or 

 large ; preorbital narrow (Bairdiella). 



c. Second anal spine moderate, 2J in head, not as long as the soft rays, not reach- 

 ing to tip of last ray when depressed ; mouth large, somewhat oblique, 

 the premaxillary on the level of lower i>art of the eye ; maxillary 

 reaching middle of eye, 2| iu head ; body oblong, compressed, the back 

 a little elevated, the profile depressed over the eyes ; snout prominent, 

 bluntish, as long as eye, which is 4J in head ; upper teeth in two series, 

 the outer row slender, enlarged ; lower teeth in two series, the inner 

 larger, similar to the outer in upper jaw ; preopcrclo serrate, the teeth 

 near the angle larger; the lowest and largest directed downward; gill- 

 rakers slender, rather long, 8 + 10 ; scales on head cycloid ; base of 

 aual little oblique; ventral outline rather regularly rounded; dorsal 

 spines slender, the highest 2J in head ; caudal long, double truncate ; 

 pectorals about as long as the A'entrals, If in head; soft dorsal and 

 anal scaled at least half their height. Color greenish above, silvery 

 below ; back and sides more or less densely punctate with dark dots 

 (especially in northern specimens), these forming narrow, somewhat 

 irregular streaks along the sides ; fins plain, mostly yellow in life. 

 Head 3 in length; depth 3. D. XI-I, 22; A. II, 10. Scales 8-52-8. 



Chrysura, 41. 



cc. Second anal spine very loug, nearly or (juite g length of head, reaching when 

 depressed beyond the tip of the last soft ray ; base of anal fin very 

 oblique, making an abrupt angle with the straightish ventral outline. 

 d. Mouth terminal, very oblique, the preruaxillary anteriorly on the level of the 

 middle of the eye ; body subrhomboidal and angular in outline ; profile 

 steep, slightly convex; snout short, 5 in head; mouth moderate, the max- 

 illary reaching middle of eye,2| in head; teeth in upper jaw in two or 

 three series, the outer considerably enlarged, all of them more or less de- 

 pressible ; gill-rakers long, 8 -f- 10 ; dorsal spines stout, the highest 

 about 2 in head ; second anal spine enormous, larger than in any other 

 species, If in head ; longer than any of the rays; second anal spine 

 and the anterior rays extending beyond the tips of the last rays ; the 

 margin of the fin concave, ventrals slightly longer than pectorals, 1^ in 

 head ; opercular scales and some of the scales of the cheek and top of the 

 head ctenoid, those of the interorbital space and a few on the lower parts 

 of the cheek and opercle cycloid ; color bluish-gray above and on 

 sides, silvery below ; a dark, ill-defined bluish-gray blotch on opercle; 

 mouth yellow within ; black towards the tip of the lower jaw ; spinous 

 dorsal with black punctulations and a black margin, soft dorsal dusky 

 yellow; caudal aud anterior rays of the anal brighter yellow ; caudal 

 and membrane between anal spine aud first ray with black dots; axil 

 of pectorals and inner membrane of the upper rays of the pectoral 

 brownish. Head 3J in length ; depth 3^. D. X-I, 23; A. II, 8. Scales 

 8-49-9 Exsifera, 42. 



