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state of the pectorals than in erythrophthalmu s a constant character; the pectoral fins were more rounded in 3 specimens, but just as pointed as in erythrophthalmu s in 2 other ones. Nor is the irregularly waved posterior margin of the lateral scales a differentiating feature, because one may find many Irregularly edged scales also in erythrophthalmu s . Wfhether there exists any difference in coloration I was unable to find out, as my material consisted of discolored specimens coneerved in formaline. For the establishing of differences denotable with numerical values, I measured all the usual proportional data of the 5 specimens, - since, however, the author published unfortunately only 5 kinds of data of the 65 animals examined by him, it is beyond possibility to find out what other values were found by him. In Table I, I give the values of 30 erythrophthalmu s taken at random from several home localities, then the data as published by MÜLLER /4/ in the original description, finally those found by me on the 5 racovitza i specimens I studied. For the sake of facilitating comparisons, I give also the scale formulae, fin ray data, etc., in the Table. I show only those data which differ between erythrophthalmu s and racovitza i , disregarding the conforming ones . Now, if we were to evaluate the data of the Table, we might state that the number of undivided rays of D. in erythrophthalmu s is always 3, while it is 2 or 3 in racovitza i : in the case of the specimens examined by me, I found 3 fin rays in 2 cases, and 2 in 3 animals, - and this conforms with the data of the original description. However, the number of the divided rays do not agree, since, according to MÜLLER, a the frequentest value is 9, and 8 is only rarely met with, while I found 8 rays in 3 cases, and 9 only in 2 animals, - a value conforming completely with that of erythrophthalmu s. Concerning the divided rays of the fin, I counted 10 rays in 3 cases, and 11 in 2, therefore this too
