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of the second dorsal, and i lie anal commences immediately behiudit. The fourth to seventh 

 rays arc the longest, the posterior decreasing in length to the seventeenl h, a tier « bicfa four 

 or five short raj s follow, preceding the stronger rays of the second anal. Base of the pec 

 torals narrow, its length being more than one-half of the length of the head; ventrals very 

 narrow, with flat base, the outer ray being produced into a very fine filament of moderate 

 length. The scales extend forward on the snout. 



Radial formula: l>. 7+47— 57; A. 41— 16. 



The color appears to have been a delicate red on silvery ground; pectoral and anal 

 transparent. Mouth and gill cavity black. (Giintker.) 



This species, of which a figure has never been published, was first described by Dr. 

 Giinther from a specimen collected by J. T. Johnson, at Madeira, from the stomach of a 

 Saccopharynx. He informs us that several specimens have since been sent to the British 

 Museum from New Zealand, where it is at times abundant. 



ERETMOPHORUS, Giglioli. 

 Eretmophorus, Giglioli, Proc. Zool. Sue. London, iss'.i, :;i's itypr, I'., hleimnbergii, /«<•. ril.. I'l.xxxiv.) 



A genus of Gadoidea having two dorsal fins and one anal, with 5 elongate, exserted, 



ventral rays, the median ones with lanceolate tips; a large abdominal cone. 



ERETMOPHORUS KLEINENI5EKGI, Giglioli. 



Eretmophorus Kleinenbergii, (Jiglioli, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1889, 328, PI. xxxiv. 



Body compressed, tapering toward the tail, but less so in the younger specimen, in 

 which the huge and singular abdominal cone is also less developed. The height of the 

 body behind the abdominal cone is contained between oh and C times in the total length 

 exclusive of the caudal fin. The lateral line extends nearly in a straight line from the 

 branchial cleft to the end of the root of the tail; it is merely marked as a furrow with 

 indistinct pits along its course; in the larger specimen at its cephalic end two slight fur- 

 rows run parallel with it above and beneath. The head is moderate, rather large; its 

 length is contained about 5 times in the total exclusive of the caudal fin; the snout is 

 short, nearly equal to the transverse diameter of the eye; its anterior contour is rounded; 

 there is a slight median gibbosity in front over the mouth. This is moderate, its aperture 

 hardly reaching the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye. Nostrils in front and a 

 little above the eye, the posterior aperture largest and oval. Eye moderate; behiudit, 

 and extending toward the nape and downwards along the preoperculuni, are two series of 

 conspicuous pores. The space between the eyes is nearly flat and rather broader than the 

 diameter of the eye; behind, the nape rises convex, presenting a median furrow in front of 

 the first dorsal in the older specimen. On the nape in the larger specimen are a number 

 of very distinct hyaline cylindrical warts, just like those of Bellottia except in shape; the 

 latter have been described by Prof. Emery' and are nearly hemispherical. In Eretmo 

 phortis they begin just behind the interocular space and appear to form a double series; in 

 the older specimen I counted eight, but a few more extend toward the head of the lateral 

 line; they are evidently sense-organs allied to those of the lateral Hue. In concluding I 

 I must state that these warts are not to be seen on the two younger specimens, in which 

 they appear to be represented by pores, more numerous and more distinct than in the oldei 

 and larger specimen. 



1 ('. Emerj . "Contribuzioni all' Ittiologia," in Mittheil. a. d. Zool. Station zu Neapel, \ i. p. 157 tav. in, 

 11. is, in. Naples, 1885. 



