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Color: The ground-color is light uuiber; abdomen grayish brown; 

 lower parts of head cream. A band of cream on the anal extends from 

 the origin of the rays to about their middle. A crescentic band of the 

 same color, mottled with umber, crosses the nape, and continues behind 

 the pectorals, blending there with the first lateral band. A streak of 

 cream, more or less interrupted by umber, extends backwards from the 

 eye across the cheek, almost to the end of the operculum. Ten bands 

 of cream-color, bordered with dark umber, start from the tips of the 

 dorsal rays and extend into the lower half of the body, becoming wider 

 and somewhat broken below the middle of the body. These cross -bands 

 are located at the second, ninth, seventeenth, twenty-fifth, thirty -fourth, 

 forty-third, fifty-second, sixtieth, sixty-eighth, and seventy-seventh dorsal 

 rays. There is, besides, a very indistinct caudal tip of cream-color. 



In the table of proportions appended, a statement appears as to how 

 many times the length of different parts of the body is contained in the 

 total length, or in the length of the head, when that seems more con- 

 venient. 



Table of Measurements. 



: 



Lvcodesmucosus.: L. Verrillii. 



1 



L. Turner!. 



Current number ol specimen 



10,930. 



Cumberland 

 Gulf. 



21 T 013. 



Off Xova 

 Scotia. 



21.529. 



St, Michael's, 

 Alaska, 





Millim. 



lOOths. 



Millim. 



lOOths. 



Millim. 



lOOths. 



Length to end of middle caudal rays 



430 





127 





330 





Body : 



Greatest height 



*m 



1 



tl2 



H 

 n 



9£ 



23 

 10 

 17 

 4 



Gh 







3* 

 13 



8 f 



28 

 20 

 17k 



H 

 9# 



H 

 1G 

 15 



h 



2* 



31 



5 

 7 



55 

 3 



61 



28* 

 15 



28 







Width at vent 















1 .-- 











Head- 

 Greatest length 













Distance from snout to nape 















11 



| 













Length of snout 

















Le.nsrth of upper jaw 











Hi 

 13 

 7 



v H 



25 



1 



a 



a 

 1 











Distance from snout to orbit 









Lon<* diameter of eye 







3 

 2G 





Dorsal : 



Distance from snout 











Length of first ray 









Length of longest ray 











Anal: 



Distance from snout 







35} 























Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 







18 



m 

 n 





Length 









Ventral : 



Distance from snout 









Length 









Branc hiostcgals 



VI 

 90 

 71 

 18 

 3 





vr 



85 

 G7 

 18 

 3 







92 

 88 

 15 







Anal 









Pectoral 























i 





* At pectorals. t Near middle of body. + Behind pectorals. 



Proc. Nat. Mas. 78 30 ApB'il 25, 1879. 



