270 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



Head very large, its length, breadth, and depth nearly equal; the greatest depth at 

 the nape; four bony tubercles on top of head and some at the sides, all covered by the skin ; 

 lower jaw included; maxillary extending to below the middle of the eye, which is equal to 

 the snout, and about 44 in head; suborbital stay and the roughish edge of the preopercle 

 both covered by smooth skin; chin and preorbital with pores. Skin everywhere thin, 

 somewhat movable, its surface roughened by small, blunt warts. Dorsal fin coutinous, the 

 feeble spines lower than the soft rays; pectorals barely reaching anal; caudal long. Head 

 25} ; depth 3$. (Jordan and Gilbert.) 



Eadial formula: D. VI, 19; A. 10. 



Color, pale, with three broad, dusky cross bands on body and fins, one on head, one 

 through spinous dorsal aud pectoral, one through second dorsal and anal, besides a small 

 baud at base of caudal. 



This species was first described from a specimen measuring 15 millimeters, dredged by 

 Prof. G. O. Sars at Hasvig, near Haminerfest, iu 200 fathoms, August, 1871; another, 50 

 millimeters long, near Trondhjemsfjord, in 1878, by Mr. Strom, at a depth of ISO fathoms; 

 again, at a depth of 191 fathoms, 18 miles northwest from Hammerfest (72° 27' N., 20° 51' 

 W.), in temperature 3° .5 C, and at a depth of 159 fathoms; 15 miles westward of north- 

 western Spitzbergen (79° 59' N., 5° 40' W.), with temperature of 1° C. 



The Blake secured a specimen of this species from station cccix, in 40° 11' 40" N. lat., 

 68° 22' W. Ion., at a depth of 301 fathoms; and two examples from station cccx, in 39° 59' 

 16" N. lat., 70° 18' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 200 fathoms. 



Specimens were taken by the Fish I In irk as follows: No. 26087, TJ. S. N. M., from sta- 

 tion 880, in 38° 48' 30" X. lat., 70° 54' W. Ion., at a depth of 2524 fathoms; No. 31760, TJ. S. 

 X. M., from station 1142, iu 39° 32' N. lat,, 72° 00' W. Ion., at a depth of 322 fathoms; No. 

 28728, TJ. S. N. M., from station 025, in 39° 55' N. lat., 70° 47' W. Ion., at a depth of 229 

 fathoms; No. 28798, TJ. S. N. M., from station 947, in 30° 53' 30" N. lat., 71° 13' 30" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 319 fathoms; No. 28771, V. S. X. M., from station 938, in 39° 51' X. lat., 09° 

 49' 15" W. Ion., at a depth of 317 fathoms: No. 28814, TJ. S. N. M., from station 946, in 39° 

 55' 30" N. lat., 71° 14' W. Ion., at a depth of 217 fathoms; No. 29077, TJ. S. X. M., from 

 station 1049, iu 38° 28' N. lat., 73° 22' W. Ion., at a depth of 435 fathoms; No. 28936, TJ. S. 

 N. M., from station 1031, in 39= 57' N. lat., 69= 19' W. Ion., at a depth of 255 fathoms; No. 

 28922, TJ. S. N. 31.. from station 90S, iu 39° 43' N. lat., 71° 32' W. Ion., at a depth of 302 

 fathoms; No. 26176, TJ. S. X. M., from station 895, in 39° 56' 30" N.lat., 70° 59' 45" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 238 fathoms; No. 26107, TJ. S. N. M., from station 892, in 39° 46' N. lat,, 71° 

 05' W. Ion., at a deptli of 487 fathoms; and also from station 894. in 39° 53' N. lat,, 70° 58' 

 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 365 fathoms. 



Additional specimens were obtained by the A Jhatross as follows: No. 33310, TJ. S. N. 

 M., from station 2028, in 39° 57' 50" N. lat.. 70° 32' W. Ion., at a depth of 209 fathoms; No. 

 33465, TJ. S. N. M., from station 2063, in 42° 23' N. lat., 66° 23' W. Ion., at a depth of 141 

 fathoms; Xo. 33514, TJ. S. X. M., from station 2092, in 39° 58' 35" N. lat, 71° 00' 30" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 197 fathoms ; Xo. 33479, TJ. S. X. M., from station, in 42° 15' 25" N. lat., 65° 48' 

 40" W. Ion., at a depth of 122 fathoms; and Xo. 35461, TJ. S. N. M., from station 2187, in 39° 

 49' 30" N. lat., 71° 10' W. Ion., at a depth of 420 fathoms. 



COTTUNCULUS THOMSONII, Glnther, (Figures 258, 262 A, B.) 



Coitus Thomsonii, Gixther, Proc. Royal Sop., Edinburgh, XI, 1882, 679. 

 Cottuncalus Thomsonii, Gunther, Challenger Report, xxn, 1887, 61, pi. ix, fig. B. 



Cottunculus torvus, Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., in, 1880, 479; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., x, 1883, 212, 213.— 

 Jordan aud Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. N. M., 688. 



Head and body smooth, scaleless, covered with a tough, lax skin. The length of the 

 head is nearly one-third of the extreme length of the body, including the caudal; its 

 greatest height, one fourth of the body without the caudal. The greatest width of the 

 head is twice the length of the maxilla. The distance of the vent from the insertion of 

 the anal equals the length of the maxilla. The eye is close to the dorsal profile. The 



