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ogni vestigio di pettorali"). The same author, how- 

 ever, in his Bivista says as follows: "Mascelle inferiore 

 un tantino piu corta della superiore, entrambe con 

 dehti", and about the pectoral fins: "Pettorale lunga 

 quanto l'occhio, affilata". In the single example of 

 the species in the collection, the teeth are well devel- 

 oped ; the pectoral fins are however wholly wanting. 

 The specimen was obtained by Dr. Bovallius in the 

 Straits of Messina on Feb. 12. 1891. 

 Its. dimensions are as follows: 



Length of body 68 mm. 



Greatest height of body 5 „ 



Distance from extremity of snout to vent 40 „ 



Length of head 3,5 „ 



Distance from extremity of snout to eye's 



anterior margin. 1,5 „ 



Eye's diameter .' 1 n 



14. L. Eckmani n. sp. 



T. I. f. 1—3. 



The body is very strongly compressed, elongate 

 and low; its greatest height, contained between eleven 

 and twelve times in its length, is situated about in the 

 middle; the height decreases therefrom almost uni- 

 formly towards the head and the tail. 



-The head is small; its length is contained about 

 two times and a half in the body's greatest height. 

 The upper profile is slightly convex and descends rap- 

 idly. The snout is pointed. The distance from this 

 extremity of the snout to the anterior margin of the 

 eye is one and a half times greater than the diameter 



