Myxodes viridis Valenciennes. 'B 
Head 4 2/5; depth 4 2/3; D.XXXV, 7; A. II, 24; P. 12; 
about 60 pores in lateral line; snout 4 in head from upper 
‘jaw tip; eye 4 1/3; maxillary 3; interorbital 1 1/4 in eye; 
head width 2 in its total length, Snout convex, length 7/8 
its width. Maxillary iaeiined vertically, about reaches eye, 
Hach jaw with row of strong conic teeth, forward ones little 
larger; no teeth on palate. Interorbital narrowly convex, 
About 15 shorter, slender, lanceolate rakers, 2 in filaments, 
Body, not head and fins, covered with small cycloid scales, 
scarcely or not touching one another; about 24 marginlaly radi- 
ating striae and about 10 to 12 coarse circuli; arch of lateral 
line extends far as depressed pectoral, after which tubes well 
‘separated. Color in alcohol dull brownish-olive. Vertical fins 
darker marginally. Length 110 mm, One without locality, doubte 
less obtained at Valpsraiso, or somewhere in Chili, 
Lepisoma philippi (Steindachner). Fuys, Ji} an A} 
Head 2 3/4 to 3 1/6; depth 3 to 3 2/3; D. XIX, 13; A. II, 
20; scales in 105 to 120 rows along and close above lateral 
‘line to caudel base; tubular scales 73 or 74 in lateral line to 
caudal base; 2O scales above lateral line to soft dorsal origin; 
30 to 35 scales below lateral line to anal origin; snout 2 3/5 
to 3 in head; eye 5 1/4 to 6 1/5; maxillary 2 1/10 to 2 2/5; ine 
terorbital 6 1/4 to 8 1/5; head width 1 7/8 to 19/10. Snout 
