with short curved gape, jaws even in front. Maxillary 
largely concealed above, about 3/5 in snout. Teeth fine in 
narrow bands in jaws. Interorbital (damaged) apparently 
nearly level. Gill-rakers 7 - 21, lanceolate, about long as 
filaments or 1 1/5 in eye. Scales caducous, small, narrowly 
imbricated, exposed surfaces entire and 18 or 19 parallel 
mostly vertical besal circuli. Spinous dorsal inserted 
about midway between snout tip and caudal base. Soft: dorsal 
inserted slightly nearer ventral origin than caudal base, 
Anal more advanced, or its insertion little nearer caudal 
than pectoral base. Pectoral (damaged) reaches little over 
helf way to ventral, and latter inserted about midway be- 
tween snout tip and middle in caudal peduncle length, fin 
2 to anal. 
Color in alcohol: faded brown, largely uniform. Sides 
of head and eye with silvery tints. Broad silvery-white 
latersl band, widens little broader then eye bétween dorsal 
snd anel and extends to caudal base. Length 83 mm. (caudal 
dsmaged). Valparaiso. 
C. itatane Steindachner, also from Chile, is described 
OY 
with 87 to 90 scales on examples 22 cm. long. 
59 Ann. Hofmus. Vien, vol. 1], 1896, p. 23. 
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