LARGER LAUNCE. 
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Compared with the Lesser Launce this last named fish has 
the gape proportionally smaller, the mystache less extended; 
palate without teeth; eye nearer the angle of the mouth. The 
dorsal fin begins nearer the head and considerably in front of 
the termination of the pectoral fin. Dr. Gunther counted the 
oblique folds of the skin as from one hundred and twenty to 
thirty in number. The number of the fin rays is in both 
these fishes nearly the same. 
