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and Evermann* it will bs sson that there is a considerable amouit 

 of variation. 



D. VI. I. 25 + 2 ; A. If. 17 + 2 ; P. 20. Scales about ICO. 

 Length of head 4*00, greatest height of body 5'00, length 

 of caudal fin 3*45 in t'e total length (without caudal). Longi- 

 tudinal diameter of ey3 6'45, length of snout 2*55, length of 

 mandible 2-20 in the length of the head. 



Body long and slender ; hsad moderately long and pointed ; 

 snout long and conical ; jaws about equal ; maxillary broid and 

 triangular, its greatest width being contained about 2 -3. 5 in its 

 length ; supplemental maxillary long and narrow, slipping under 

 the thin preorbital. Eye fairly small, situated a little forward 

 of the centre of the head ; interorbital space broad, smooth, and 

 convex ; preopercle and opercle entire. Gill-rakers numerous, 

 principally below the angle, cephalic ones becoming gradually 

 shorter, the longest about 1'30 in the longitudinal diameter of 

 the eye. 



Teeth in broad, villiform patches on the jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines ; tongue devoid of teeth, but covered with minute 

 asperities. 



Fins : Spinous dorsal originating above the last fifth of the 

 pectoral; spines short and weak, in life almost folding in a groove, 

 longest spines (3rd and 4th) 2*20 in the length of the snout, the 

 fin detached from the second dorsal ; second dorsal long, the 

 anterior rays elevated, the longest '2 -70 in the length of the hea 1 ; 

 last ray a little shorter than the diameter of the eye. Last ray 

 of dorsal finlet greatly producjd ; its length 4'00 in the length of 

 the head. Distance between dorsal finlet and base of last ray of 

 second dorsal 1-60 in the diameter of the eye. Distance between 

 last ray of dorsal finlet an 1 base of caudal lobe 3*85 in the length 

 of the head. Origin of anal beneath thirteenth dorsal ray; fin 

 very low, with exception of anterior portion, the longest ray of 

 which is 3*85 in the length of the head. Detached anal spines 

 obsolete. Caudal very deeply forked, lobes long and slender 

 (lower lobe slightly the longer), their length about equal to the 

 distance from the snout to the first half of the pectoral fin. 



Jordan and Evermann: Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus. (I) 1893, p 936. 

 Also Bull. U.S. xxiii (1) 1905. p. 185. 



