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THE  REV.  R.  T.  LOWE'S  DESCRIPTION  OF 
interval  between  the  anterior  and  middle  palatine  teeth  of  the  upper  jaw :  their  points 
are  equally  directed  backwards.    A  range  of  similarly  shaped  but  much  smaller  teeth, 
to  the  number  of  eleven,  immediately  succeeds  them. 
The  vomer  is  devoid  of  teeth. 
The  lower  jaw  is  radiately  striated  externally  from  its  angle  :  its  plate  is  longitudi- 
nally striate :  and  oblique  strics  occupy  its  lower  part  anteriorly. 
The  branchiostegous  membrane  is  narrow  and  free  :  it  is  supported  in  one  individual 
by  six,  and  in  the  other  by  seven  slender  short  rays.  It  opens  forwards  as  far  as  the 
middle  of  the  lower  jaw. 
The  cheeks  are  covered  with  smooth  skin. 
The  eye  is  very  large ;  its  diameter  being  one  sixth  of  the  length  of  the  head,  and 
more  than  one  third  of  the  depth  at  the  part  at  which  it  is  situated.  It  is  placed  mid- 
way between  the  nose  and  the  extremity  of  the  operculum,  and  close  to  the  upper 
margin  of  the  head. 
The  pectoral  fins  immediately  adjoin  the  head,  and  almost  equal  it  in  length.  They 
are  placed  so  low  down  as  to  be  nearly  on  the  ventral  surface.  They  have  each  at 
their  base,  externally  and  posteriorly,  a  small  pouch.  Their  form  is  lengthened  and 
acute,  and  somewhat  falcate.  Their  rays  are  fifteen  in  number :  of  these  the  first 
is  the  longest.  It  is  simple,  compressed,  and  somewhat  serrated  along  its  anterior 
margin. 
The  first  dorsal  fin  commences  immediately  over  the  edge  of  the  operculum,  and  is 
continued  for  more  than  two  thirds  of  the  length  of  the  body.  It  is  very  high,  being 
at  its  middle,  which  nearly  corresponds  with  the  situation  of  the  ventral  fins,  three 
times  as  high  as  the  body  at  that  part.  Its  outline  is  regularly  rounded,  the  anterior 
ray  being  about  one  fourth  of  the  greatest  height,  and  the  posterior  gradually  dimi- 
nishing to  less  than  one  half  of  the  length  of  the  first.  The  termination  of  this  fin 
corresponds  with  the  commencement  of  the  anal.  The  rays  supporting  it  are  forty  one 
in  number,  and  the  whole  of  them  are  simple.  They  are  comparatively  slender,  but 
appear  to  be  also  very  brittle  :  they  do  not  terminate  in  stiff  points.  The  anterior  ray 
is  somewhat  serrated  along  its  front  edge. 
The  second  dorsal  fin  is  placed  midway  between  the  termination  of  the  first  and  the 
caudal.  It  is  destitute  of  rays,  and  is  entirely  fatty.  Its  base  is  narrow,  and  it  be- 
comes much  wider  outwardly ;  its  length  at  its  external  part  exceeding  its  height.  Its 
termination  is  a  little  anterior  to  the  termination  of  the  anal  fin. 
The  caudal  fin  is  very  large  and  powerful.  It  is  forked  nearly  to  the  base,  and  is 
supported  by  nineteen  rays,  of  which  ten  are  in  the  upper  and  nine  in  the  lower  di- 
vision. Besides  these  there  are  numerous  smaller  rays  both  above  and  below,  which 
do  not  reach  to  the  extremity  of  the  fork.  The  lobes  are  mutilated  at  the  tips,  but 
they  must  have  exceeded  one  eighth  of  the  total  length  of  the  fish. 
Tiie  anal  fin  equals  at  its  base  one  tenth  of  the  total  length.    It  is  supported  by 
