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Valenciennes state that the dorsal is 12 and anal 8, but in their figure at least 13 
rays are shown in the anal. Bleeker (Atlas) states that the dorsal is 12 or 13 and 
anal 9, but his figure shows 12 or 13 in the anal. 
General color pale, slightly brownish on back; body thickly sprinkled with 
black dots; pectoral black, dotted; ventral blackish; caudal pale; anal and 
dorsal broken, but showing indications of black color. 
Cypsilurus sp. 
One specimen 31 inches long from Station 4619, surface, Lat. 7°, 15’ N.; 
Long. 82°, 8’ W. 
Length to base of caudal 63 mm.; head 4.5; depth 4.84; eye 2.33; snout 
very short; mouth small, very oblique; interorbital 2.33; dorsal 103; anal 8; 
pectoral reaches to below 9th dorsal ray; ventral inserted about midway between 
posterior margin of eye and base of caudal; insertion of the dorsal somewhat in 
advance of anal; scales about 45; first four rays of pectoral simple, shorter than 
others. Sixth pectoral ray longest; lower caudal lobe longest. 
Color in spirits brownish above, silvery below; pectoral black with paler 
rays, base whitish below, tips white; ventral and dorsal black; anal pale; caudal 
pale with three faint diffuse spots on lower lobe. 
Fodiator acutus (Cuvier & VALENCIENNES). 
JorpaN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 728. 
Ezxocoetus acutus Cuv. & Vau., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1846, 19, p. 91 (125). 
One specimen # inch long from Acapulco. 
Head 3.24 in length; length of beak 2.9 in head; eye 4.33 in head; dorsal 10; 
anal 11. Beak black; back brown; a blackish stripe with poorly defined edges 
along the side from behind pectoral; posterior part of body from insertion of 
ventrals to insertion of dorsal blackish; outer half of pectoral, except Ist ray, 
black, inner rays pale; ventrals, except Ist ray, black; anal and caudal pale; 
middle of dorsal black. 
? Exonautes sp. 
One specimen 1} inches long from Station 4646, Lat. 4°, 1.6’ 8.; Long. 89°, 
16.3’ W., surface. 
Length to base of caudal 26 mm.; head 4.74 ; depth 6.50; eye 2.06; inter- 
orbital 2.20; dorsal 10; anal 11; first 3 pectoral rays simple. 
Color in aleohol: — general color plain pale straw; a few black dots on top 
of head and on jaws; body without spots anterior to origin of ventral, posterior 
