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Depth 6 2/3; head 5, width 2 l/4. Snout 3 3/4 in head from snout 
tip; eye 3 l/2, subequal with snout and interorbital; maxillary reaches 
opposite hind eye edge, length 1 4/5, in head from snout tip; no barbel; 
teeth finely villiform, even, in 6 or 7 rows transversely above and 4 or 5 
below; interorbital 3 l/lO, low, unevenly though rather deeply depressed. 
Gill rakers 6 + 23 on forst arch, lanceolate, slender, 1 2/5 in eye; gill 
filaments 2/7 of gill rakers. 
Scales (pockets) 110 in medial lateral or axial series, of which 
18 forward ox vent; 7 above, 12 below, 26 predorsal. Scales most all 
fallen, apparently little larger on head than on body. Scales simple, cycloid, 
without striae; circuli fine, form angles on median or horizontal axis basally. 
D. II, 8 - 111, second simple ray 3 in total head length; A. 88, 
fin much lower than dorsal; no pseudocaudal; pectoral rays I, 15? (damaged); 
ventral rays I, 7, (damaged), inserted well before first dorsal. 
Warm brown generally, head little paler, with silvered reflections 
and gray on opercles. Iris gray. Inside mouth and gill opening blackish 
brown. Fins more or less dusky. 
Eastern Atlantic. Though my specimens in poor preservation. 
Vaillant shows pectoral 1 3/5 in head and ventral 2 2/3. He also gives 
scales 140?, 7 above, 17 below, D. 9 - 102 and A. 97, length 440 mm. 
U. S. N. M., no. 42083. 
Travailleur et Talisman Collection. Paris Museum (86 + 110). Length 210 mm. 
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U. S. N. M., no. 42111. 
