556 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec, 



Argentina sphyraena Linnaeus. 



Seven from Italy. 



MIOROSTOMID^iE. 

 Microstoma microstoma (Risao). 



Four from Italy. 



SALANGID^J. 

 Salanx hyalocranius J. F. Abbott. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 490, fig. Tien Tsin, China. 



Nos. 26,800 to 26,840, A. N. S. P., paratypes. 



STOMIATIDiE. 



Stomias bonapartei sp. nov. Fig. 1. 



Stomias barbatus Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital., Pesc. Ill, pt. 1, XXX, 1841, 

 descr., PI. fig. 3. Sicily. Probably not of Cuvier. 



Head 7f ; depth about 9; D. in, 9?; A. in, 14; P. i, 6?; V. i, 5; 

 scales (according to pockets) about 77 in lateral series to caudal 

 base; about 8? scales (pockets) in transverse series, at centre of 

 abdomen; about 70? vertebrae according to myocommas; head 

 width about 2\ its length; head depth at occiput 1£; snout 4| in 

 head measured from upper jaw tip; eye 4; maxillary 1 T V; inter- 

 orbital 4; lower caudal lobe 1§; pectoral 2|?; ventral 2^?; front 

 longest anal ray 2j?. 



Body very elongated, greatly compressed, edges apparently 

 somewhat trenchant?, and sides flattened. Trunk constricted at 

 neck, abdomen with swollen appearance and thus forming greatest 

 depth. Caudal peduncle compressed, its least depth about 2 in its 

 length. 



Head compressed, deep, upper profile horizontal and a little 

 convex, lower more inclined and a little convex, sides flattened. 

 Snout short, evidently with surface convex, length about § its width. 

 Eye rounded, near first third in head close to upper profile. Maxil- 

 lary slender, extends far back nearly to hind preopercle edge. Pre- 

 maxillary toothed, with five large slender curved thin fangs, second 

 fang longest and fourth larger than others. Last f of lower maxillary 

 edge finely toothed, denticles very small, of about uniform size, and 

 all directed posteriorly. On each side of vomer a large slender sharp 

 fang, and behind each also another similar pair, but so approximated 

 that their tips cross. Still posterior and external to latter also 

 another shorter fang, similarly directed, though each one much 

 smaller. Along mandible edges 9 + 8 fangs, as 2 small ones at each 

 side of symphysis, then larger curved fang, then little shorter 



