Color in alcohol dull brownish, with brassy tints, paler 
below. Each row of scales with pale median streak, darker 
edges bordering each side so intervening darker ones about 
equally wide. Fins dull brown. Length 187 mm, Northern 
Patagonia, 
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Cynoscien microlepidotus (Cuvier). %~ 4° 110. 
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Head 2 4/5; depth 3 3/5; D. X - I, 21; A. Th Sy 
scales 126 in lateral line to caudal base and about 18 more 
larger on latter; tubes about 58 in lateral line to caudal 
base; 21 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin; 
17 below to spinous anal origin; about 70 predorsal scales; 
snout 4 1/8 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 4 7/8; maxillary 
21/8; interorbital 4. 
Body elongately fusiform, well compressed; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 1 2/5 its length er 32 in total head length, 
Head width 2 2/5 in its length. Snout conic, length 7/8 its 
widthij Eye elevated, hind edge midway in total head length, 
Mouth large, lower jaw well protruded. Maxillary to hind oun 
edge; expansion 1g in eye, Upper teeth biserial, outer row 
larger, and pair of canines in front inside; lower teeth larger 
than most of upper, uniserial, mostly uniform; no others, 
Nostrils close; hind one little larger; front one at last 
fourth in snout, length. Enterorbital broadly convex, with 
developed superfiliary rddge each side , Preopercle and 
suprascapular with membraneous edges, 
