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and about 37 in lateral series to base of caudal; 7 scales between 

 origin of .spinous dorsal and lateral line; 17 scales in a vertical 

 series between lateral line and origin of spinous anal ; snout 3 in 

 head; eye 2j4 ; maxillary 4; interorbital space 35^; fifth dorsal 

 spine 1% ; tenth dorsal-ray iV?; third anal spine i^ ; ninth anal 

 ray about 1^/7; least depth of caudal peduncle 2V7; length of 

 caudal ij^ ; pectoral i}^ ; ventral Vio ; ventral spine i^. Body 

 ovate, strongly compressed, deep. Head small, compressed, and 

 upper profile concave from snout to occiput. Eye large, circular, 

 and about median in length of head. Mouth very small, terminal. 

 Jaws even, with small slender flexible bristle-like teeth. Maxil- 

 lary barely half way to orbit, not reaching anterior nostril. Pre- 

 opercular margin with very slight obscure denticles. Interor- 

 bital space rather broad and a little convex. Nostrils close to- 

 gether in front of eye above. Gill-rakers 4 -|- 13 short rudiments, 

 those on lower cerato-branchial longest. Body covered with 

 ctenoid scales, large on trunk, and those on head and fins becom- 

 ing very small, numerous and crowded distally. Anteriorly above 

 lateral line row^s of scales oblique and parallel with its course. 

 Till about level with the eye same obtains below lateral line, 

 though posteriorly as latter decurves along base of rayed dorsal 

 rows persist in their former oblique courses. Below level of eye 

 rows of scales oblique down and back so that if crossed by upper 

 rows narrow triangles would form. Scale fiap in axil of ventral 

 about % length of spine. Spinous dorsal inserted just behind 

 origin of pectoral, spines hateracanthous, graduated to fifth, 

 which is longest, and margin of fin deeply notched. Rayed dor- 

 sal inserted posteriorly, much nearer base of caudal than origin 

 of spinous fin, broad. Anal spines well freed, second longest, 

 and origin about opposite base of ninth dorsal spine. Rayed 

 anal broad, similar to rayed dorsal. Caudal broad and posterior 

 margin a little convex. Pectoral reaching anal. A^entral longer 

 than pectoral, inserted a little before origin of same and reaching 

 a little beyond origin of spinous anal. Color in spirits yellowish, 

 each row of scales on trunk wdth a narrow brown line. A dusky- 

 brown band from nape obliquely down to and through eye, con- 

 tinued across cheek and interopercle. A second broader streak 

 from first 3 dorsal spines down back of pectoral along side of ab- 



