232 GilJ & Townsend — Diagnoses of Neiv Species of Fishes. 



Raia intenupta. 



Snout moderately produced, with a soft very attenuated rostral cartilage 

 and a blunt tip. Interorbital space concave. Mouth small; the width 

 equal to half i)reoral area. Entire hack covered with very small embedded 

 spines, extending nearly uniformly over the disk and snout, leaving only 

 the tip of the latter naked ; a row of compressed acutely curved, smooth 

 spines along middle of back, extending from the interhumeral region 

 to dorsal, but interrupted along the posterior half of disk, where the 

 si)ines are absent or obsolete; about four spines are in tlie anterior por- 

 tion and the series recommences on a line with the emargination of the 

 disk ; a single spine on each shoulder and occasionally a rudimentary 

 second ; no specialized supra-orbital spines. 



NOTACANTHIDiE. 

 Macdonaldia alta. 



D., 32 ; A. (31 to end of dorsal) 52 spines, 125 rays. 



Body com4)aratively high ; greatest height equal to 3| the distance be- 

 tween vent and tip of snout. Pectoral fin with its root twice as far from 

 upjier cleft of branchial aperture as from the lateral line, and much nearer 

 to the posterior end of operculum than to lateral line. 



Bering Sea, Lat. N. 54° 54', Long. VV. 168° 59' (station 3604, Aug. 13, 

 1895; 1401 fathoms). 



Macdonaldia longa. 



D., 33 ; A. (26 to opposite end of dorsal) 55 spines. 111 rays. 



Body comparatively slender, with the greatest height about one-fifth 

 distance between vent and ti]i of snout. Pectoral lin with its root three 

 times as far from upper cleft of branchial aperture as from lateral line, 

 and very much nearer lateral line than end of operculum. 



Bering Sea (station 3607, 1895; 900 fiithoms). 



ALEPOCEPHALID.E. 



Ericara, new genus. 



Alepocephalids with small, perfectly smootli, imbricated cycloid scales, 

 wide cranium, projecting snout, deeply cleft mouth, uniserial and acro- 

 dout teeth on vomer and anterior portion of palatines, and dorsal and 

 anal of normal extent and opposite each other. 



Ericara salmonea. 



Dorsal, 17 ; anal, 24. Maxillary extending to vertical of posterior bor- 

 der of orbit. Head large : length, 82 ; depth, 5; width, 43. 



Bering Sea, S.W. of Pribilof Islands (station 3603, 1895 ; 1771 fathoms). 



LYCODID^. 



Lycodes digitatus. 



Body moderately elongate, its greatest height being between i and ^of 

 the total length ; covered with small, entirely separated embedded scales, 



