GADID^:. 310 



4. Motella macrophthalma, Plate LXXXIX, f. 2. 



Motella macrophthalma, Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1807 (3) xx, 

 p. 290, pi. v, f. B and 1. c. 1874 (4) xiii, p. 139. 



B. vii, D. /55, P. 15, V. 6, A. 55, C. 32. 



Length of head 4*-, of caudal fin 7, height of body 7-\- in the total length. 

 Fjije diameters 4 to 4 \ in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the 

 snout, and 1 apart. The greatest height of the head rather exceeds one half of 

 its length. Barbels -three, two on the snout and one beneath the symphysis of 

 the lower jaw. Teeth cardiform in the jaws with an outer enlarged row of 

 widely separated ones in the lower jaw, and in a patch on the vomer : none upon 

 palatines or tongue. Fins the first dorsal commences above the middle of the 

 opercle and extends to above the last third of the pectoral fin, the length of its 

 base equals 2/3 of that of the head. Vent situated at 1/3 of the distance between 

 the front edge of the eye and the posterior extremity of the caudal fin. Colours 

 brownish becoming lighter on the sides and beneath : the smaller example shows 

 traces of what may have been cross- bands. 



This species, instituted from young examples, is very similar to M. cimbria, but 

 deficient in one of the barbels as well as possessing an excess of about 5 dorsal and 

 11 anal rays. 



Habitat. One example is 3 inches in length taken at eighty fathoms depth, 

 the other nearly 4^- inches long, and figured life size, captured at a similar depth 

 between Shetland and Faroe. 



