DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTKIBl I [ON. 



MEASTXREMENTS— Continued. 



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< 'in i -ii t numher <>t specimen- 

 Locality 



Station 



Millime- 

 ters. 



l distance from snout 



Length of base 



Greatest height :ii foarl li spin.-. 



Height .11 first ipin< 



Height at seoona spun' 



Height at third spine 



tS,,tt< I. [|_!ll m1 ll.iSi 



Anal : 



Distance from Bnout 



Lengt h *>t base 



Height atfirst spine 



Height .it second spint 



I [eight at third spin.' 



Height at longest ray 



< an. I.il 



Length of middle ray* 



P< i boral: 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral: 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Dorsal 



Anal 



LOOth -I 



*2 

 :u 

 2 : 

 in 

 18 

 ■si 

 Mutilated 



Ml 



12 

 1 

 14 

 14 

 15 



24 



44 

 44 



44 

 25 



in 



XI. I 



III, 6 



The steamer Blake obtained two specimens <>t' this species, 53 millimeters and 52 milli- 

 meters long', respectively, from station cccxxvn, in 34° 00' 30" X. lat., TIP 10' 30" W. Ion. 

 at a depth of 178 fathoms; and two specimens from station xcvn, off Barbadoes, at a depth 

 of _'09 fathoms. 



Specimens were taken by the Albatross from station 2397, in 28° 42' X. lat., 86° 36' 

 W. Ion. at a depth of 280 fathoms; and from station 2426, in 36° 01' 30' 1ST. lat., 74° 47' 30" 

 W. Ion., at a depth of 93 fathoms. 



LIOSCORPIUS, Gunther. 

 LioBCorpius, GONTHER, Challenger Report, I. Part vi, p. 40, pi. xvu, rig. C. 



Scorpsenids with head and body compressed, the former with muciferous cavities 

 above, and with scarcely any ridges or spines. Occiput without groove, naked. Three 

 strong sharp spines upon the preoperculum and two upon the opercular flap. The mouth 

 very large, the snout elongate, thecurve of the mouth being downward. Orbit encroaching 

 upon upper outline of head. Body covered with small scales, and with a wide, naked lat- 

 eral line with about 28 skinny tubes. Dorsal tins separate; the first low, with eight or 

 nine spines, the first, second, and third evenly graduated. Pectoral tin long, lanceolate, with 

 simple rays. Teeth villiform in bands in the. jaws and ou the vomer and palatine bones. 

 Bran chios tegals vn. 



The type of this genus is Lioscorpiiis longiceps, Gunther, loc. cit., pi. xvn, fig. C, which 

 closely resembles Setarches parmatm in form, except that its head and snout are longer, 

 and the upper jaw curves downward. The genus seems well enough separated from 

 Setarches by the smooth, grooveless occiput and the simple character of the rays of the 

 pectoral. 



Family COTTID^E. 



( . ,11m, I. a , RICHARDSON, Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1836, 36. 



Cottidce, Girard, Cottidte of N. America, 1858, 1.— Gill, Arr. Fam. Fishes, 1872, 6 (No. 55), Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mas. m. 1889, 590. 

 Cotlini, Bonaparte, Catalogo Metodico, 1846, 62. — GtiNTnER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., n, 152. 



Gottoids with a well developed myodome; uninterrupted cranial valleys behind. Body 

 fusiform or compressed. Enterocular space usually narrow. A bony stay connecting sub- 

 orbital and preopercle, usually covered by skin; upper angle of preopercle usually with one 

 or more spinous processes. Teeth in villiform or cardiform bands on jaws, and (usually) on 

 vomer and palatines; preinaxillaries protractile; maxillary without supplemental bone. 



