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a tingle series of about 3 strong, bluntly conical, dcpressible teeth; lower jaw with 2 series of blunt, 
conic teeth, the inner the larger; origin of dorsal in front of gill-opening a distance equal to one-fourth 
the head. 
Color in alcohol, a series of 27 narrow brown bands alternating with wider light bands, the nar¬ 
rowest bands mostly somewhat narrower than eye, the broader ones mostly twice eye; a series of 
narrow parallel brown longitudinal lines on side of head in front of gill-opening; the anterior brown 
band running through eye, the second around head posterior to gape; angle of mouth brown. 
Only one specimen, type, No. 506S5, U. S. Nat. Mug. (original No. 2355), 13 inches long, obtained 
by the Albatross in 1896 at Honolulu. 
Echidna psation Jenkins, Hull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII. 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 431, fig. 12, Honolulu. 
67. Echidna obscura Jenkins. Fig. 30. 
Head 8.3 in total length; depth 17; eye 9.5 in head; snout 5.75; interorbital 5.75; gape 2.8; dis¬ 
tance from tip of snout to vent slightly less than from vent to tip of tail. 
Fig. 30 .—Echidna obscura Jenkins; from the type. 
Body moderately' elongate, rather deep and somewhat compressed; head narrow, somewhat 
swollen above; mouth large, the gape extending more than an eve’s diameter beyond eye; lower jaw 
shorterthan upper and somewhat curved; ey'e about midway between tip of snout and angleof mouth; 
