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the course of the lateral line aud about 28 in a cross-series 

 from dorsal to ventrals : coloration very dark ; fins dusky ; 

 scales everywhere finely punctate. Size large. .TAHOEXSIS, 3*2. 

 gg. Body elongate, subterete, the depth 4 to 4 in length : head quite 

 loog and slender, 4J to 4f in length, depressed and flattened 

 above, broad at base, but tapering into a long snout, which 

 considerably overhangs the large mouth : lips thick, coarsely 

 tuberculate, the upper lip narrow, with 2 or 3 rows of 

 tubercles: eye rather small, behind the middle of the head: 

 scales very small, much crowded forwards, 95 to 114 in the 

 course of the lateral line, and about 29 (26 to 31) in a cross 

 row from dorsal to veutrals : dorsal rays 10 or 11 : males in 

 spring with the head and anal fin profusely tuberculate, the 

 tubercles on the head small ; the sides at that season with a 

 broad rosy band: size large; the largest species in the 



genus LOXGIROSTRIS, 34. 



ff. Upper lip very broad, with several (5 or 6) rows of large papillae. 

 i. Body long and slender, subterete, compressed behind, the form 

 essentially that of C. longirostris, the depth contained 5 times 

 in the length : head large, 4 in length of body, the interorbital 

 space broad and flat, 2| in length of head : eye small, high up 

 and rather posterior: preorbital bone very long and slender, 

 its length about three times its depth : mouth large, precisely 

 as in C. latipinnis, the upper lip pendent, very large, with 5 to 

 8 Eeries of tubercles : dorsal lin not elongated or especially 

 elevated, its rays 11, the beginning of the dorsal much 

 nearer base of caudal than snout : caudal lin long and stronglj 7 

 forked : anal fin long and high, reaching base of caudal : ven- 

 trals not reaching vent : caudal peduncle stout and deep, its 

 least depth more than one-third length of head, its length 

 about two-thirds that of head : scales quite small, about as in 

 Jongirostris, the exposed portion not notably lengthened: 

 chest with well-developed scales; scales 16-100-14 : coloration 

 dusky brown, a dusky lateral band, pale below, the dark colors 

 extending low ; snout quite dark: size large.. KKTROPLNNIS, 35. 

 t j. Body slender and elongate, the caudal peduncle especially long and 

 very slender, the depth 5 in the length: head moderate, 4f 

 in length, rather slender, with prominent snout and rather 

 contracted, inferior mouth; outline of the mouth triangular, 

 the apex forwards ; the lips very thick, greatly developed , 

 lower lip incised to the base, its posterior margin extending 

 backwards to opposite the eye : jaws with a slight cartila- 

 ginous pellicle : eye small, high up : preorbital bone broad, 

 scarcely twice as long as deep : scales long and low, posteri- 

 orly rounded, their horizontal diameter greater than the ver- 



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