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mudas, who while doing so much for the social and political 
welfare of the islands, is taking an active part in adding to 
our knowledge of their natural history. 
2. Hngraulis cheerostomus, sp. nov. 
This species closely resembles Hngraulis surinamensis (Blkr.) 
Gthr. differing from it, however, in several respects. 
The height of the body (16) is a little more than two-thirds 
of the length of the head and is contained six times in the total 
length and a little more than four times in the length to end of 
middle caudal rays (‘90): the height at the ventrals is less (-18). 
The scales are large, in thirty-eight oblique rows between the 
head and the caudal. 
The length of the head (22) is less than one-fourth of the 
total and is double its height at the pupil (11): its greatest 
width (‘08) is about one-third of its length. The orbit is 
nearly circular and its diameter (‘05) equals the length of the 
snout (05) and the width of the interorbital area (05). The 
snout projects far beyond the lower jaw, whose extremity just 
passes the vertical from the anterior margin of the orbit. The 
maxillary is dilated above the mandibular joint, rather tapering 
behind, and extends to the gill opening. The gill-rakers are 
fine, setiform, not longer than the eye (05), about 25 on the 
lower branch of the outer branchial arch. 
The origin of the dorsal fin is in front of the middle of the 
body (:45 from snout), and directly above the extremities of the 
ventrals: the length of the first ray (06) is half that of the 
second (12), which nearly equals the length of the base (11). 
The origin of the anal is at the middle of the body (51 from 
_ Snout) and below the posterior dorsal rays: its greatest height 
(11) nearly equals that of the dorsal. 
he length of the middle caudal rays (:08) is two-fifths of 
the outer rays (20). The length of the pectorals (-11) equals 
the length of base of dorsal (11), the extremities reaching to 
the origin of the ventrals. Length of ventrals (-09): distance 
from snout (- ' 
Color: back and sides brownish, belly white; a broad, clearly 
defined lateral band of silyer as wide as the diameter of the 
orbit (05 
Radial formula D. 13-14. A. 23-24. Length 2°68 inches 
(M. O -068). Se 
Common in schools in Hamilton Harbor, where it is taken 
for bait in cast nets. Its enormous mouth has given it the 
name of “hog-mouth fry.” : 
The types of these descriptions are preserved in the U. S. 
National Sata in Washington and the University Museum 
in Middletown, Conn. 
