. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 124 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM moderately depressed, its greatest width about equal to its length without snout; interorbital space to in head; snout broadly- rounded, to in head; eye lateral, to in head; mouth moderately broad, its cleft extending somewhat beyond posterior nos- tril, its width at angles to in head; teeth pointed, in a broad band in each jaw, and a similar one on vomer and palatine, the vo- merine teeth well separated on median line, but continuous with the palatine teeth in
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 124 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM moderately depressed, its greatest width about equal to its length without snout; interorbital space to in head; snout broadly- rounded, to in head; eye lateral, to in head; mouth moderately broad, its cleft extending somewhat beyond posterior nos- tril, its width at angles to in head; teeth pointed, in a broad band in each jaw, and a similar one on vomer and palatine, the vo- merine teeth well separated on median line, but continuous with the palatine teeth in the three specimens at hand (not as described and figured by Eigenmann and Eigenmann (1890, p. 51, fig. 7) or by Evermann and Radcliffe (1917, p. 31), one of whose specimens is at hand); gill rakers short, 3 on upper and 10 on lower limb of first arch in one specimen; upper surface of head smooth, fontanel produced forward as a deep groove sometimes nearly to posterior margin of eye; occipital plate narrow; origin of dorsal about length of snout behind base of pectoral spine, distance anterior to dorsal to in length; dorsal spine slender, without definite barbs, in head; adipose fin large, its origin over or a little in advance of that of anal, its base to in head; caudal fin long, deeply forked, the upper. Figure 26.—Galeichthys peruvranus Liitken. From a specimen 350 mm. long, Callao, Peru ( No. 77693). (After Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917.) lobe the longer; anal fin with rather deeply concave margin, the an- terior rays reaching well beyond tip of posterior one if deflexed, its base to in head; ventral rather large, reaching origin of anal, inserted about equidistant from base of pectoral spine and middle of base of anal; pectoral failing to reach base of ventral by about length of snout, the spine distinctly barbed distally on outer margin, to in head. Color of preserved specimens blackish above, pale silvery under- neath, midd
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