though usually preserved as showu, is ju’oved by many specimens to have the 
form normal in Leptolepis, while the crushing of the pterygo-palatine arcade 
upon the suborhitals and supramaxillaries has caused the deceptive appearance 
of two great jilatcs in the figure. 
Sp. Char . — A moderately robust species of small size, resembling L. 
talhragaroisis, except in the undermentioned characters. Length of head 
with opercular apparatus iiot much exceeding its depth, about equal to the 
maximum depth of the trunk, and occupying somewhat more than one-fifth 
of the total length of the tlsh ; anal tin arising nearer to the pelvic fins than 
to the caudal. 
