304 



DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



men, **32 millimeters in length, was presented by Oapt. William H. Greenleaf and the crew 

 of the schooner Chester R. Lawrence, who secured it on the Grand Banks. 



The dentition of the La Have specimen agrees exactly with that of L. Verrillii. The 

 lower jaw has the teeth in two series, with an imperfect series of smaller ones between. The 

 upper jaw has a single series of teeth, with a few smaller ones behind the symphysis. There 

 are about seven teeth on the vomer and a single row of about seven on each palatine. The 

 teeth are obtuse-conic, not curved, as in L. Verrillii. In the specimen of L. EsmarMi from 

 La Have the colors are somewhat less regular in distribution than those described and fig- 

 ured by Bernhardt; instead of showing (i light bands, the arrangement of light color upon the 

 dark ground of the body is as follows: One white spot on each side, above the posterior end 

 of the opercular flap, the spots not meeting on the dorsal line. The first saddle -shaped 

 marking begins on the back, under the eighth ray of the dorsal fin, and extends on either 

 side nearly to the middle of the body. The second saddle-shaped marking begins under the 

 twenty- seventh dorsal ray and extends nearly to the margin of the fin, involving the width 

 of about two rays and the connecting membrane, and extends also downward nearly to the 

 middle line of the body, increasing iu width as it descends. The next begins under the fifty- 

 fourth ray, and resembles the last in form and extent. The next begins under the seventy- 

 ninth, and, though smaller, resembles the others. The individual from the Grand Banks is 

 the largest yet recorded. The measurements are as follows: 



TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS. 



* Dansk. Vid. Selsk. naturvid. og math. Afh., Deel vii, 1838, 153, pi. v. 



t Norges Fiske, 1875, 99. 



