a 
Ethmidium maculatum (Valenciennes). (yry,20 - 
eet 8 
Heed @+ deoth 2 9/10 to 2 7/8: D. 411, 15 to 17; 
A. 11, 18 or 14; scaies 46? to 48 in median lateral series 
to caudal base: 17 or 18 scales transgersely at dorsal 
origin; 23 or 25 predorsal serrae; 18 or 19 - 16 or 17 
abdominal serrae; snout 4 3/5 to 4 9/10 in head; eye 7 1/8 
to O94; maxillary 21.5 to 2g; interorbitel 4 3/5 to 4 7/8. 
Head width 2 2/5 to 2 3/5 in its total length. Snout conic, 
long as wide, with bony knob above at tip. hye advanced, 
adipose eyelid broad. Mouth large, mandible included, fits 
-4n upper jaw which is notched at front to receive mandibulary 
tip. Maxillary extends back slightly beyond eye; expansion 
wide as eye. No teeth. Interorbital convexly elevated, depres- 
sed medially. Opercle with few obsolete oblique striae. Gill- 
rakers about 110 + 125, extremely siender and fine, nearly 
3 in head; filaments 1 4/5 in gill-rakers. Scales with 1 to 
5 vertical or transverse striae; broad depressed apical den- 
ticles 1% to 19: circecuvli as vertical striae, fine. In alicohol 
pale brown, with olivaceous tinge above; lower surface paler 
or wnitish. about a dozen obscure dusky spots along side of 
back and lower shorter parallel row below; fins pale brown. 
Two from Peru. 215 mm.? (caudal damaged). 
Dorosomatidae. 
Macarer> 
-Anodontostoma chacunda (Buchanan @% Hamilton). 
Drawing of example from Manila. 
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