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HELLER AND SNODGRASS 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE TYPE OF Antennarius tagus. 



Genus Allector gen. nov. 



Characters. - Body short, stout, and not much compressed ; head 

 large, cuboidal, armed with a pair of stout supraorbital spines ; mouth 

 large, vertical in position, premaxillary and mandible armed with canine 

 teeth ; vomer and palatines toothless ; soft dorsal and anal fins with bases 

 short, posterior in position ; pectorals geniculate ; ventrals wanting. 



ALLECTOR CHELONL^ sp. nov. 



FIG. i. Allector chelonice. 



Type. Cat. No. 6342 Leland Stanford Jr. University Museum. 

 Taken between Clipperton Island and Galapagos Archipelago. 



Diagnosis. Head large, two and three sevenths in total length, 

 broad and flattened above, with a pair of supraorbital spines ; teeth in 

 both jaws irregular, not greatly enlarged, longest equaling diameter of 

 pupil ; vertical fins filamentous at tip ; 0.3; A. 3 ; C. 9 ; P. 18. 



Description of the Type. Head two and three sevenths in length ; 

 depth two and two thirds ; eye contained seven times in length of head ; 



