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Rebburni maru
153
(Skeleton taken)
3.30 Q. M.
No. 2
Sperm ♦ July 23/10 Aikawa
Whole drawn out & slip measured
carefully.
Color
General color slate, much
light gray about genitalia and
in the sides directly above a far
as mid lateral line.
Flecks & lashes of light gray along
ventral line almost to flukes.
Small scattered patches & flecks
of light gray over throat breast
clear to corner of mouth.
The extremity of the head (the lower two
thirds) is white; the upper third
is very light grayish which shades
gradually into the white of the lower
two thirds. On the sides of the
head from the extremity to the
corner of the mouth & thence it's very
light gray "cross-crossed" in every
direction with white lines and
narrow bands.
The whole mandible from a point
anterior to the branching of the
rami is white marked rather
faintly with small oblong grayish
marks pointing fore and aft
From a point a little behind
the corners of the mouth & the
branching of the mandibular rami