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tbe third shorter than the diameter of orbit; pectorals four times as 

 long as the opercle. Scales large and thin; lateral line much broken 

 posteriorly. Head 4 ; depth 5. D. 9 or 10, 50; A. 56; Lat. 1. 90. 

 (Goode and Bean.) Coast of Massachusetts, in deep water. 

 (Goode and Beau, Proc. U. S. Nut. Mus. i, 1878, 256.) 



43. HALOPORPHYRUS Giiuther. 

 (Lcpidlon Swaiuson; preoccupied as Lepidla.) 



(Giiuther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns. iv, 3r>8, 1862: type Gadus lepidion Risso.) 



Body elongate, compressed, tapering into a slender tail. Scales very 

 small. Head entirely scaly, even to the gill-membranes. Snout de- 

 pressed, thin and flat, projecting beyond the mouth; mouth rather large; 

 chin with a barbel; jaws with bauds of villiform teeth; a small round- 

 ish patch of teeth on voiner, none on palatines. Dorsal fins two ; the 

 first short, its anterior ray produced into a long filament; anal fin 

 deeply notched, almost separated into two fins; ventral fins with six 

 rays, one of them filamentous; caudal truncate. Branchiostegals 7. 

 Deep-water fishes. (<//c, sea; -o/Hfupoz, purple, from the deep colora- 

 tion.) 



1233. II. viola Goode & Bean. 



Color, deep violet or blue-black ; inside of mouth and operclcs blue- 

 black; snout broad, pointed at tip, much depressed, forming a roof-like 

 projection above mouth ; a conspicuous keel extending backward from 

 tip of snout along the suborbital to the posterior margin of the eye. 

 Mouth U-shaped, wholly inferior; maxillary nearly reaching posterior 

 margin of orbit; iuterorbital space flat, as wide as the large eye, the 

 orbital ridges somewhat elevated; barbel about one-half diameter of 

 orbit. First dorsal with its first ray much produced, longer than head; 

 anal I'm deeply notched near its middle. Caudal peduncle as long as 

 eye; its depth more than half its length; longest ray of ventrals reach- 

 ing about half way to vent; pectoral 1 in head. Head 1 J : depth 5. 

 I). 4-53; A. 40; V. (J; Lat. 1. 115. Hanks of Newfoundland and south- 

 ward, in deep water.. 



ll<ihii>i>ri>lnjrun riohi (' ..... !< ;m<l Bran, Proc. \' . S. Nat. Mus. i, 2~>f>, 



439.-PIIYSICULUS K:uip. 



<K:mp. Wir^mauu's An-liiv. I-."-, s-< ; type Physiculua dalwigkii Kuup.) 



Body clou-ate, covered with small scales; head entirely scaly ; snout 

 broad, obtusely rounded, project ing beyond the mouth; mouth of mod- 



