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Thrissocles setirostris (Broussonet). Pray. be) 
jead 4 to 4%; depth 33 to 3 3/5; D. 141. 10; 1, branch- 
ed rays vary 11; A. iii, 35, 1, branched rays vary 32: snout 
6 in head; eye 32 to 4; maxillary 1 3/5 to 1-2/3; interorb- 
ital 32 to 43; scales about 38 to caudal base and 4 more on 
latter; 10 scales transversely at dorsal origin; 25 pre- 
dorsal scales; serrae 16 to 18 +: Body strongly compres- 
sed, deepest at dorsal origin. Caudal peduncie well com- 
pressed, least depth 2 1/5 its length. Head width 2 1/3 to 
28 its length. Snout short, convex, length half its width. 
Eye with hind edge at first 2/5 in head length, covered with 
adipose eyelid. Mandible but slightly shorter then snout. 
Mexillary extends back as filament within an eye-diameter 
of anal, its entire lower edge to pectoral base with row 
of fine teeth. Row of very much finer teeth along each man- 
dibular: edge. Several small teeth each side of vomer, and 
row of very fine ones down each palatine. Interorbital con- 
vex. Gill-rekers 5 - 11, lanceolate, long as filaments or 
about 2/% of eye. Scales caducous, narrowly imbricated; 9 
to 14 transverse striae mostly complete; circuli fine and 
mostly parallel with striae. Dorsal origin about midway 
between front eye edge and caudal base, first branched ray 
1 1/8 in head. Anal begins below last dorsal ray base, or 
slightly nearer pectoral origin than caudal base, first 
branched ray 1 1/3 to 12 in head. Pectoral nearly to or 
slightly beyond ventral base. Ventral not quite reaching 
anal, 1 3/5 in head. In alcohol: heck purplish-brown, sides 
