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Head 2 3/4 to 2 9/10; depth 1 4/5 t 
24; A, I, 19 or 20; snout 2 1/6 to 2 1/3 in head from upper 
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© 29/10; Dy <7 I, 
jaw tip; eye 4 3/4 to 4 4/5; maxillary 23; interorbital 5% 
to 6; rakers 9+ 28 to 36; length 185 to 275mm, (caudals 
damaged)- Two, one from Peru and the larger from South 
America? The smaller exampleshas very differently formed 
gillerakers than any wechave seen previously. They are 
irregular as to length and the terminal portion of each is 
expanded or peadelece We that they fold one over the other, 
Many are also variously bent, Richard gives a drawing of a 
Rio Janeiro example. 
We have compared a series in the Academy from Rhode Is 
land, New Jersey, Maryland, South Carolina, various examples 
from the coasts of out Atlantic Btates , Vosta Rica, Volon, 
Panama, trintdad: Ric Janeiro and West Africa, These show: 
Head 24 to 3 1/3; depth 1 2/5 to 2 1/8; D. VI or VII = I, 
usually 22, frequently 21 or 23, rarely 21 or 24; A. L. 17 
to 20, once 19; snout 2 1/8 to 2% in head from upper jaw; 
eye 2% to 5; maxillary 2 2/5 to 2 7/8; interorbital 5 to 6; 
rakers 7 to 9, once 10 usually 28, though vary 24 to 33; 
length 82 to 340 mm, (31 specimens examined). 
Nichols has accepted Jordan and Evermann's separation 
of the three forms evidently to be grouped under this specédes, 
“e replaces their V. gahinensis (not of Guichenot) with a 
new name, V. setapinnis cubensis®’, “This is based on an 
example 122 mm. long, with the depth 1.56, Our Costa Rica 
57. Bull Amer.Mus Nat ,Hist,,vol.38,1916,p.6725.—~«t~s 
