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DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



«ien, *^32 millimeters in length, was presented by Cnpt. William H. Greenlcaf and the crew 

 of the schooner Chester li. Lawrence, who secured it on the Grand Uauks. 



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

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

 upper Jaw lias 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 obtii.se-conic, not curved, as in L. Verrillii. In the specimen of L. Esmarkii from 

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

 ured by Eeiuhardt ; instead of showing light bauds, 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 

 uf the opercular tlap, 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 ou 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 conne(;tiug membrane, and extends also downward nearly to the 

 middle line of the body, increasing in 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., Deol vii, 1838, 153, pi. v. 



f Norges Fiske, 1875, 09. 



