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Hexagrammos decagrammos (Pallas). 7g 4 2 O64 awit 
Head 3 1/8; depth about 3 1/8; D. XX, I, 20? ( 3 damaged?); 
A.I, 23, 1; scales about 114 rows close above and along median 
lateral line to caudal base; tubes about 109 in median lateral 
line to caudal base and about 30 more out over caudal from base, 
or about 4/5 entire fin length; 16 scales above median lateral 
line to spinous dorsal origin, 14 to soft dorsal origin, 32 be- 
lew to anal origin; about 35 scales between spinous dorsal origin 
and hind eye edge; snout 2 9/10 in head; eye 5 3/5; maxillary 
4 5/6; head width 1 5/6. Snout conic, width 1 1/8 its length, 
Hind eye edge midway in head length, Interorbital convex, 
Rakers 4112, tuberculate, low; filaments 1 1/3 in eye. Scales 
obleng, with 15 to 28 parallel apical striae and 12 to 15 marginal 
striae; cheeks and opercles full covered with cycloid scales; 
50 rows between eye and angle of entire preopercle; lateral line 
5, though only 3 continuous to caudal-base. Color in alcohol bone 
brown generally, becoming more natal brown on lower surface of head 
and abdomen. Fins all dark. Length 335 mm, One from "Pomotous” 
(body skinned out) evid-ntly with wrroneous locality, and doubtless 
obtained in Califormia or Yregon, 
Likewise a small example, 235 mm, (caudal damaged), labeled 
"Oahu"! dit shows: Head 4; depth 43; D. XX, I, I, 27? (fin damaged); 
A. I, 233 scales 115 in median lateral line to caudal base; snout 
3 in head; eye 5; maxillary 2 1/2; intererbital 5 1/2. In poor 
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