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the sides scaled forward as far as the opercle extends, in one 

 specimen about four rows directly in front of the dorsal, the 

 other approximately like the types. 

 Intonsa, unshorn, from the shaggy appearance of the head. 



39. MACGREGORELLA MORGANA Scale 



PLATE 28, FIG. 1 

 Macgregorella moroana SEALE, Philip. Journ. Sci. , A 4 (1909) 533. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10: anal I, 8; there are 48 to 50 scales in a 

 longitudinal and 16 in a transverse series. 



The depth of the laterally compressed, elongate body 5.5 times 

 in length; the very large, broad, flat head 3.5 times in length, 

 triangular when viewed from above, its depth 1.5 times in its 

 breadth ; the snout convex, bluntly rounded, 3 times in head ; the 

 eyes close together, high up, their gaze directed upward, 4.8 in 

 head ; the interorbital very narrow, about 2.5 in eye ; the distance 

 from tip of snout to posterior margin of eye equal to postorbital 

 length of head; the mouth small, oblique, lower jaw projecting, 

 posterior angle of maxillary in advance of front margin of 

 eye; the lips are fringed within ; the upper jaw has a short outer 

 row of a few widely spaced, enlarged teeth and two rows of 

 minute teeth behind it; in lower jaw is a band of three rows 

 of pointed, slender, depressible teeth of uniform size; five per- 

 pendicular papillate ridges of folded skin on side of snout and 

 below eye, one on opercle, and a dozen below chin and 

 beneath subopercle; those on cheeks pocketlike, those beneath 

 head superficially resemble barbels ; the top of snout crossbarred 

 by similar short ridges; a short cross ridge behind each eye; 

 each nostril has a long flaccid tube; on the interorbital are 

 two prominent pores, one behind each eye, three on supraoper- 

 cular groove, and three on posterior margin of preopercle ; the 

 opercles and preopercles covered with scales embedded in the 

 skin and not easily seen ; those in upper posterior angle of pre- 

 opercle very small, the others much larger; those on opercle 

 deeply embedded and almost invisible; the dorsals separated, 

 rather low, the middle spines of first dorsal longest, about 1.55 

 in head; the first dorsal of nearly uniform height, the next to 

 the last ray a trifle the longest and scarcely exceeding first 

 dorsal, about 1.5 times in head; the anal base much shorter 

 than that of second dorsal, the rays longest posteriorly, 1.4 

 in head; the caudal peduncle short, its depth 0.8 of its length; 

 the caudal elongate, pointed, 1.4 times the length of head; 2.375 

 times in length of head and trunk ; the pectoral broad, pointed, 



