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prominent angle on the preopercle, another below the articular, and one of 

 moderate size below the symphysis of the lower jaws. A peculiar modifica- 

 tion of the skeleton is apparent in the anterior vertebraa where the neural 

 processes are short and declined toward the column, so that the supports of 

 the dorsal fin are without the ordinary connection with the vertebral 

 processes. 



Fins very fragile ; dorsal origin three sevenths of the distance from the 

 snout to the base of the caudal, length of base equal to its distance from the 

 nostrils ; anal short, base twice the length of the eye, origin near a vertical 

 from the fifteenth ray of the dorsal ; caudal deeply forked, of nineteen long 

 rays ; ventrals inserted below the hindmost rays of the pectorals ; pectorals 

 narrow, one and one half times as long as the ventrals, reaching the lateral 

 line but hardly reaching the vent. 



Scales thin, small, with a spreading radiate base and a loaflike or cuplike 

 crown which is more or less spiniferous, ridged, and angulated. See PI. XII., 

 figs. 6, 7. There are about eleven scales above and thirty-six below the lat- 

 eral line in a transverse series, and about seventy-eight in a longitudinal 

 row. Lateral system on the body a naked canal crossed by thirteen disks 

 each protected by a large scale which forms a bridge over the channel. Plate 

 LXXIL, fig. 1, shows several of the anterior disks of the series as continued 

 back from the head. With slight variations in the groupings on the inter- 

 orbital space and below the eyes, the arrangement of the lateral system 

 on the head recalls that on Dicrolene and Pteroidonus, Plate LXXV., 

 figs. 1, 2 ; on Lamprogrammus, Plate LXXXI., fig. 1 ; on certain Gadidas, 

 Plate LXXXII., figs. 1, 2 ; and on other Berycoids, Plate LXXII., fig. 2. 

 The stomach, pyloric cteca, intestines, and other viscera are figured on 

 Plate XII., figs. 1, 2, 3. The stomach is comparatively large and has five 

 cfEca; the intestine is short; the vent is midway from the head to the 

 base of the caudal. Normally there are eight branchiostegal rays; the 

 foremost is small and slender and is not seen on fig. 5 of Plate XII. 



The colors of the fresh specimen are shown on plate B ; alcoholic speci- 

 mens are deep black over the entire surface and on the linings of the body 

 cavity. 



