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Arripis trutta(Schneider),. 4% 
Head 3 1/5 to 34; depth 3 3/5 to 3 7/8; D. IX, 16, 1 to 
18, 1j A. Tift, 10, 13; scales 50 or 51 in lateral line to caue- 
deal base and 5 non-tubular scales on latter; 6 scales above 
lateral line to spinous dorsal origin; 11 below to spinous 
anal origin; 21 or 22 predorsal scales to occiput; snout 3 2/5 
to 3 4/5 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 4 2/5 to 4 7/8; 
maxillary 2 1/8 to 2 1/5; interorbitak 3 to 3 1/5, 
Body @longately fusiform, compressed; least deoth of 
caudal peduncle 1 2/5 to 1 2/3 in its length or 3% to 3 4/5 
én total headilengeth. Head width 1 7/8 to 21/10 its length, 
Snout convex, length 1 1/8 w 1/5 its width. Eye round, 
center at first third in younger examples or slightly back- 
ward, in head, without mandible, in older examples; adipose 
eyelid broad behind, where covering 1/5 of eye. Mouth large 
lower jaw well protruded, Maxillary to hind pupil edge; 
expansion 11/3 to 15 in eye, Teeth simple, pointed, rather 
slender, in bands in jaws, on vomer and palatines. Nostrils 
adjoining, fall at last 2/5 in snout, hind one twice size of 
front. iInterorbital broad, flattened or depressed, se profile 
above concave, Few obsolete short points along lower preopercle 
