Color in alcohol: deep brown generally, everywhere 
rather conspicuously marbled with more or less narrow 
creamy or pale brownish reticulations. Iris pale slaty. 
Inside mouth mottled brownish, corners not especially 
darker. Gill-opening slightly edged dusky-brown. Length 
087 mm. 
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The type of Thyrsoidea keaupii Abbott, No. 916 A. 
P., shows: Head 8; depth 16; snout 5; gape 2; interorbital 
8°: mendible 1 4/5. Head and trunk combined 1 1/6 in tail; 
head 34 to vent, width 3 in its length. Snout rather conic, 
width 14 its length, slightly protrudes. Eye midway in gape, 
12 in snout. Mouth not completely closing. Téeth uniserial 
above, front ones Canines, also 3 median front canines; @ 
large depressible conic teeth close inside outer erect teeth 
below eye above; lower teeth bak uerial, front ones 
canines; vomerine teeth uniserial erect teeth, begin opposite 
front eye edge. Hind nostril simple pore over front eye edge. 
Gill-opening little less than eye. Pores on head distinct. 
Dorsal begins about last third between hind eye edge and 
gill-opening. 
Color in alcohol:bright brown, with triple row of rather 
large blotches whole body length, due to pale or whitish re- 
ticulations over ground color. Dark spots not separated along 
abdomen, where general color much peler then ebove. All pale 
reticulated lines of back slope up behind on dorsel fins, 
also indistinctly extend on anal. Dorsal edge blackish, 
though anal guite pale. Mouth mottled brownish insid 
rictus little brownish. Gill-opening edged very sligt 
