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the middle ; the former is separated from the first dorsal by a very narrow 

 notch. The anal is little shorter than the second dorsal and originates below 

 the hindmost ray of the first dorsal. Pectorals small, reaching back below 

 ten or eleven rays of the second dorsal, pointed. Ventrals small, of six ravs, 

 first and second with filaments, second as lon<)- as from snout to dorsal, bases 

 widely separate. Caudal pedicel slender; fin narrow, ending in a blunt 

 point or rounded. 



Scales small, covering body and head, very small on the snout. Lateral 

 line eight scales from the dorsal, interrupted and difficult to trace or obso- 

 lete in the hinder two thirds of the length. On the head the mucous cavi- 

 ties are large, and the largest glands of the series lie on the top between the 

 orbits. 



Nine pyloric appendages. 



Muscular portions reddish brown, snout darker, blackish on the branchio- 

 stegal rays, lips, belly, bases of ventrals, axils of pectorals, hinder angle of 

 second dorsal, extremity of caudal and lower half of anal. Dorsal light, 

 pectorals and outer halves of ventrals lighter. Scales on sides of head and 

 abdomen silvery, those of the breast bronzed. 



Distinguished from Ph>/ciculus ncmatojms Gilb., by a greater number of 

 rays in the dorsal and a smaller number in the ventrals, and from F. rastrelr 

 liger by the longer dorsal and the smaller ventrals. 



Phyciculus rastrelliger. 



Phyciculus rastrelliger Gilb., 1890, P. U. S. Mu.?., XIII., 113. 

 Plate LXXXII. fig. 2, Lat. Syst. 



Br. r. 7; D. 8,54-58; A. 58-63; V. 7; P. 26-27; LI. 99-105; Ltr. 

 8 + 25. 



Rather stout, thick and massive anteriorly, as broad as deep forward, 

 compressed, tapering and slender backward, snout to end of body cavity not 

 twice as long as the head, depth near one sixth of the total length. Head 

 one fourth of the entire length, as broad as deep posteriori}', wider than 



