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at their posterior ends by a distance equaling the diameter of tlic pupil; anteriorly 

 they converge, meeting at a point opposite the front of the eye. 



The gill-rakers are long and slender, the longest two-thirds to five-sevenths 

 the diameter of the eye, there being 5 or 6 movable ones on the vertical limb, and 

 11 or 12 on the horizontal limb, besides 2 or 3 immovable rudiments on each limb. 

 There are 51 or 52 tube-bearing scales in the course of the lateral line, corresponding 

 in number with the approximately vertical series along the back. Each vertical row 

 under the middle of the second dorsal fin contains 74 or 81 scales in the fifteen 

 specimens examined. The lateral line is pale, but is accompanied above and below 

 by short stitch-like lines of black pigment, one pair for each scale. 



Measurements in Hundredths vf Length without Caudal. 



Length in mm. from tip of snout to caudal base. 



Head without lower jaw 



Depth 



Eye 



Interorbital (bone only) 



Maxillary 



Third dorsal spine 



Fourth dorsal spine 



Fifth dorsal spine 



Second anal spine 



First anal ray 



Second dorsal ray 



Pectorals 



Ventrals 



Caudal 



Caudal peduncle (height) 



Vent from front of anal 



Distance from anal to base of ventral spine .... 

 Longest gill-rakers 



207 



39i 



27 

 6 

 5i 



15 

 18 

 26 



23i 



26 



114 

 12-J- 



39 



222 



40 



29 



6 



54 

 14 

 174 



154 



27 



18 



18 



27 



23 



25 



12 



124 

 36 

 44 



230 

 39 

 274 

 54 

 54 



144 



17 



i6i 



144 



27 



18 



17 

 27 

 22 

 25 

 114 

 14 

 371 

 44 



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November 21, 1903. 



