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47 
in eye; gill filaments 4/5 of gill rakers. 
Scales 122 in lateral line to caudal base; 17 above. 26 below, 100 
predorsal. Vertical fins with scaly bases. Scales rather firmly adherent, 
small, thin, in rather even longitudinal rows, smaller about edges of body 
and fin bases. Scales also with more or less ill defined weak circuli, these 
weakly or imperfectly concentric. 
D. 20, rays broken, fin base 2 l/3 in head, fin origin little nearer 
m 
caudal base than pectoral origin, or over first fourth of anal base; A. 28, 
rays broken, fin base 1 3/5 in head, fin origin slightly nearer gill opening 
than caudal base; caudal damaged, evidently small, rudimentary rays 10 or 11 
above or bejow, rather prominent and extend forward well toward dorsal and 
least depth of caudal peduncle 3 2/3; 
anal;/pectoral 2 l/3; ventral damaged, apparently equals orbit; vent close 
before anal origin. 
Head blackish. Iris neutral black, pupil light brown. Body dark brown. 
Fins brown. 
r*r * «■-' • f 
Off California. 
75826 U.S.H.M. H. 33 ° 2 ' 15 " W. 120 ° 42 ', off Santa Catalina 
n Island. Albatross Station 4390, March 28, 1904. Length 462 mm. Type. 
Genus LEPTOCHILICHTHYS Garman 
Leptochiliohthys GASMAN, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol.24, 1899, p.284. Type 
T , Leptochiliohthys agassizii (JARMAN, monotypic. 
Body elongate, compressed, tapering rather narrowly posteriorly. Head 
large, deeper than wide. Snout deep, blunt, thick. Mouth wide. Maxillary 
long, wide, extends well beyond eye. Upper jaw toothless; small vmiserial 
