. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 244 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM CONODON MACROPS, new species Ojo de uva Figure 53 Conodon serrifer Evermann and Radcliffe (not of Jordan and Gilbert), 1917, p, 82, pi. 8, fig. 2, Capon, region of Tumbes, Peru (references, but apparently not pertaining to this species; description). Head ; depth ; D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 7; P. 16; scales 50. Body rather elongate, compressed, its greatest thicloiess somewhat greater than half its depth; back rather low; dorsal profile anteriorly gently convex; ventral outline gently convex;
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 244 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM CONODON MACROPS, new species Ojo de uva Figure 53 Conodon serrifer Evermann and Radcliffe (not of Jordan and Gilbert), 1917, p, 82, pi. 8, fig. 2, Capon, region of Tumbes, Peru (references, but apparently not pertaining to this species; description). Head ; depth ; D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 7; P. 16; scales 50. Body rather elongate, compressed, its greatest thicloiess somewhat greater than half its depth; back rather low; dorsal profile anteriorly gently convex; ventral outline gently convex; head rather low and long; caudal peduncle long, compressed, in head; snout fairly blunt, ; eye large, ; interorbital ; preorbital narrow, ; mouth oblique; lower jaw projecting; maxillary reaching nearly opposite anterior margin of pupil, in head; teeth in each jaw in a band, the outer ones in each jaw enlarged (but less so than in the other species of the genus); margin of preopercle denticulate, its angle greatly produced, with a very large spine, the first 2 spines below and. Figure 53.—Conodon macrops, new species. From the type, 255 mm. long, Capon, Peru ( No. 77632) in advance of it directed downward and backward, the rest on horizon- tal limb directed more or less forward; gill rakers slender, those at angle about as long as pupil, 15 on lower and 6 on upper limb of first arch; scales firm, slightly ctenoid on middle of body below lateral line, cycloid elsewhere, 7 longitudinal rows of scales between lateral line and base of first dorsal spine, 5 between lateral line and base of first soft ray of dorsal; dorsal deeply notched, the fourth spine longest, in head; anal spines stronger than dorsal spines, the second some- what longer than the third, but scarcely stronger, in head; ventral inserted a little behind base of pectoral, the spine rather long and slender, in head; pectoral long, pointed, the sixth and seventh ray (counting
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