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fourth as long as head; interorbital space convex, its width two 

 fifths of length of head; maxilla reaches to below front of pupil; 

 mandible reaching to below hind margin of orbit, its length 

 equal to snout and eye combined; nostrils nearer to tip of snout 

 than to eye, the anterior in a very short tube; teeth in villiform 

 bands in both jaws, but more developed in the lower than in the 

 upper; gill rakers short and stout, the longest about one half 

 as long as eye. The origin of spinous dorsal is a little behind 

 origin of ventral; the base of the fin equals postorbital length of 

 head; the spines are all short, the third, and longest, two thirds 

 as long as the eye. The antecedent spine of the soft dorsal is 

 two thirds as long as the eye; the base of the fin equals three 

 times the length of snout and eye combined; the longest ray is 

 three times as long as the last ray and two thirds as long as the 

 head. The middle caudal rays are three sevenths as long as 

 the outer rays and one fourth longer than the head. The anal 

 origin is under the sixth ray of the soft dorsal; the fin is pre- 

 ceded by two short isolated spines and a third closely connected 

 with the first ray; the second of the antecedent spines is two 

 thirds as long as the eye; the longest ray is two thirds as long 

 as the head, and the last ray is about as long as the eye. The 

 ventral origin is at a distance from tip of snout equal to one 

 third of total length to end of middle caudal rays; the fin 

 reaches to the vent and to below the fourth spine of the dorsal. 

 The pectoral reaches to below the fifth spine of the dorsal, its 

 length equal to length of head without the snout. D. V, I, 24; 

 A. II, I, 22; V. I, 5; P. I, 17. Color silvery, with tips of anterior 

 part of dorsal black and with blackish on the middle of the pec- 

 toral. 



The measurements above are from an example nearly 6 inches 

 long, no. moss, U. S. National Museum, taken at Tompkinsville 

 N. Y. Another example 3^ inches long, no. 36036, U. S. National 

 Museum, was collected at Blue Point cove, L. I. There are a 

 ininihcr of additional examples in the IJ. S. National Museum 

 from localities south of New York. The individual from Tomp- 

 kinsville is almost exactly of the size of the type of the species 



