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APPENDIX. 



In their valuable "Notes on a Collection of Fishes from Java, 

 made by Owen Bryant and William Palmer in 1909, with 

 description of a new species" Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum Vol. 42, 

 1912, p. 596, BARTON A. BEAN & ALFRED C. WEED give 

 the following description: 



Agonostomus bryanti Bean and W r eed, new species 



"Two specimens, 51 mm. long. Pelaboean Ratoe, Wynkoop's 

 Bay, October, 1909. 



"We are informed that there are many small mountain streams 

 flowing into the bay and it is probable that these fish were 

 taken from one of these. 



"Head, 3 ! / a ; depth, 4; snout, s 1 /,; eye, 3 3 / 7 ; D. V I, 8; 

 A. Ill, 8 ; scales 26 29 in horizontal series, the specimens being 

 in such condition that it is practically impossible to make an 

 accurate count. Teeth in a villiform patch in each jaw, the 

 outer row considerably enlarged. The teeth in the inner rows 

 are so small that they can not be detected by the use of a 

 dissecting needle but are plainly visible under the microscope. 

 Looking directly down on their ends they look like minute 

 papillae. Papillae of similar appearance are visible in all parts 

 of the roof of the mouth of the cotype, being especially crowded 

 on the head of the vomer. The teeth of the outer row are 

 strong, conical abruptly recurved and, perhaps, slightly flattened 

 at the tip. In Agonostomus monticola the teeth in the jaws are 

 all recurved, with the tip flattened, spoon-shaped, bicuspid or 

 tricuspid. A careful inspection will show all types in the same jaw. 



"Mouth very small, oblique, the lower jaw strongly pro- 

 jecting. The maxillary does not reach front of eye. 



"Caudal rounded; soft dorsal opposite anal and similar to 

 it but with slightly shorter base. 



"Scales ctenoid, a single row of teeth on the edge of each. 

 In Agonostomus monticola there are from three to six rows of 

 fine teeth on the outer edge of each scale. An unidentified 

 specimen of Joturus has the entire exposed surface of the 

 scale closely covered with fairly strong teeth. 



"This species differs from all other species of Agonostomus 

 of which we can find any description in the small number of 



