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head ; caudal double truncate, If- in head ; second anal spine 3 in head. 

 Color brassy, paler below ; middle part of body with short, irregular dusky 

 vertical bars crossing the lateral line ; many dark-brown spots on sides of 

 back, irregularly placed, and not forming continuous streaks along the rows 

 of scales ; usually some of these coalesce to form two dark streaks concurrent 

 with the back. Head 3 in length ; depth 3£. D. X-I, 28 or 29 ; A. II, 7 ; lat. 



1. 54 - Undulatus, 83. 



66. Scales larger, 7 in a vertical series from front of dorsal to lateral line, 9 or 10 

 in an oblique series ; teeth of outer series in upper jaw scarcely enlarged ; 

 dark spots on back forming continuous dark streaks nearly as wide as the 

 pale interspaces ; body a little more slender than in M. undulatus; profile 

 almost straight, a little depressed above the eye ; snout long, 3 in head ; eye 

 small, 6 in head, 1| in interorbital area; preorbital wider than eye; maxil- 

 lary 3 in head, reaching front of pupil ; teeth in broad, villiform bands ; pre- 

 opercle less strongly serrate than in M. undulatus ; third dorsal spine highest, 

 If in head ; dorsals connected by a low membrane ; dorsal with a sheath at its 

 base formed by a single series of scales ; soft dorsal naked ; second anal spine 

 5 in head ; scales of the breast and head cycloid ; a dark spot on opercle ; 

 axil dusky; short vertical bars extending across lateral line ; many oblique 

 lines above these ; markings more regular, though less sharply deliued than 

 in M. undulatus. Head 3| in length; depth 34; to 3f. D. X-I, 30; A. II, 7; 

 lateral line 54 Furnieri, 84. 



aa. Dorsal rays X-I, 24 to 26 ; outer teeth of upper jaw scarcely enlarged ; scales 

 rather large ; snout little projecting ; lateral line 43 (oblique series, 53 pores) ; 

 scales between, front of dorsal and lateral line, vertically 6 or 7 ; obliquely 

 8; 16 in an oblique series from vent; profile gibbous above the eyes, de- 

 pressed at the nape ; eye If in snout, 6 in head ; month broad, inferior 

 slightly oblique ; maxillary entirely concealed by the broad preorbital, which 

 is wider than the eye ; maxillary extending to below anterior margin of the 

 orbit ; teeth in both jaws in villifurm bands, those of the outer series of the 

 upper jaw somewhat enlarged ; preopercle with two strong spines at the 

 angle and many smaller ones above these ; gill-rakers little developed, not 

 half the length of the pupil, 7 + 12 ; third dorsal spine highest, reaching 

 to first soft ray, 1^ in head; soft rays of dorsal subequal; caudal double 

 truncate ; anal spine moderate, 1* in the rays, 3* in head ; pectorals -J- longer 

 than ventrals, slightly less than 1^ in head; scales on cheek, opercle, and 

 breast cycloid, the rest ctenoid ; soft dorsal with a weak scaly sheath 

 anteriorly; soft dorsal and anal naked; lateral line arched anteriorly, be- 

 coming straight slightly in front of anal fin. Color, grayish silvery ; dorsal 

 region and sides above lower edge of pectorals marked with dark streaks ex- 

 tending obliquely upward and backward along the series of scales ; about 

 ten short oblique bars extending downward aud forward across the arched 

 portion of the laterial line ; lining of gill cavity blackish ; fins all yellowish ; 

 tip of spinous dorsal blackish ; upper edge of pectoral and border of soft 

 dorsal dusky. Head 3| in leugth ; depth! 3^. D. X-I, 24 to 26 ; A. II, 7 ; 

 scales 7-53-10 Ectexes, 85. 



aaa. Dorsal rays X-I, 20 to 22; outer teeth of upper jaw scarcely enlarged; snout 

 somewhat projecting; scales still larger; lateral line 42 (49 pores); scales 

 above the lateral line, •vertically, 5 or 6 ; obliquely, 8; 12 in an oblique 

 series from vent; maxillary extending scarcely beyond the vertical from the 

 anterior margin of the eye ; body less elongate than in Micropogon ecteues ; 

 highest dorsal spines 1| in head; anal spine about 4 in head; coloration 

 essentially as in Micropogon ectenes. Head 3£ in length; depth 3|. D. X-I, 

 20 to 22; A. 11,7. Scales 7-48-15 Altipinnis, 86. 



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