1925] Townsend and Nichols, Fishes from Lower California 7 



25 inches, the smallest about one foot in length) and it is these that our 

 specimen closely resembles. The fourth specimen of raleighiana, a 

 young one four inches long, was quite dissimilar. It might be argued 

 that our young fish was of minimum size for the adult form of this 

 previously described species and that the eye would become relatively 

 smaller with growth. However, the four-inch Atlantic fish just referred 

 to had a small eye and, if we are to accept it as the young of the same 

 species represented by larger Atlantic specimens, this little Pacific 

 specimen is not the same. It might reasonably be supposed that, if 

 allied, it would be recognizably different. 



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Fig. 2. Harriotta curtiss-jamesi. Type. 



We find it shows the following discrepancies with the description 

 of Harriotta raleighiana. 



The interval between the two dorsal fins is two-thirds the diameter of the eye 

 instead of nearly the diameter of the eye; the height of the second dorsal is two-thirds 

 of the diameter of the eye instead of equaling the diameter of the eye; the length of 

 the second dorsal is contained one and a half times in the head, instead of equaling 

 the head; the ventrals extend to a point just short of the end of the second dorsal, 

 instead of only to a point two-thirds of the distance between its origin and end; they 

 measure a little more than two-thirds of the snout instead of a little less than half the 

 snout ; the eye is contained a scant three times in the snout instead of five and a half 

 times in the larger specimens, four and a half times in the one of about a foot length, 

 and in the young one of about four inches the eye is appreciably larger than the inter- 

 orbital. 



Otherwise this fish agrees closely with the figures and description of 

 Harriotta raleighiana, having the same filamentous tail, longleaflike snout, 

 arrangement of lateral lines, spines on the head and back, proportions 

 and relative position of fins, shape of body, etc. It is black in color. 



