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DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASItf. 



Back bluish, with a green tinge, iridescent, changing through purplish blue and bluish 

 gray to rosy white below, and milky white toward the median line of the belly. Head rosy, 

 iridescent, with red tints most abundant on the forehead, blue under the eyes, cheeks fawn- 

 colored. Throat and under side of the head pearly white, with an occasional tint of lemon- 

 yellow; this is most pronounced in front of the ventrals and on the anterior portion of 

 ventral fins. Back with numerous maculations of bright lemon or golden. Anal purplish, 

 with blue and rose tints, iridescent. Margin of anal rich purplish blue, iridescent like the 

 most beautiful mother of pearl; this color pervading more or less the whole fin, which has 

 large yellow maculations. The lower border is rose-colored like the belly, and the base of 

 the fin also partakes of this general hue. Dashes of milk-white on the base of the anal 

 between the rays. 



Dorsal gray. In front of the seventh dorsal the upper third posterior to the upper 

 two-thirds dark brown. Spots of yellow, large, elongate, on or near the rays. Adipose fin 

 whitish brown or yellow; a large group of bright yellow, confluent spots at the base. 



Pectorals sepia colored with rosy and purplish iridescence. 



Viscera. — Stomach small, siphonal, barely more thau a loop in the very large intestine. 

 Alimentary canal short, stomach and intestine when stretched out at full length extending 

 from the diaphragm to the caudal. A loop in the intestine immediately posterior to the 

 stomach. Liver with two lobes, nearly equal in length, light chestnut-brown. Gall-bladder 

 large, pendent, pear-shaped, with long duct. Swim-bladder simple, with thick muscular 

 walls, strongly attached to roof of abdominal cavity by numerous root-like appendages,, 

 resembling somewhat those of Pogonias. Spleen two-thirds as long as gall-bladder. 



TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS. 



[The unit of comparison is the length to the origin of the middle caudal rays.' 



Current number of specimen 



Locality 



Length to origin of middle caudal rays 



Length tu end of middle caudal rays. 



Body: 



Greatest height (at ventrals) 



Greatest width 



Least height of tail 



Length oi caudal peduncle 



Head 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



Width of inter orbital area 



Lengtli of snout 



Length of operculum 



Length of upper jaw 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Long diameter of eye 



Dorsal (adipose) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Greatest height 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length of first spine (possibly broken) 



Length of second spine 



Length of third spine 



Length of fourth spine 



Length of fifth spin.- (possibly broken) 



Length of sixth spine 



Length of seventh spine 



Dorsal (soft) i 



Length of base 



Lengt h of first ray 



Length of longest ray (thirteenth) 



Length of last ray. . - 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length of first spine 



Length of second spine 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest' ray (eleventh) 



Length of last ray 



