DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIK DISTRIBUTION. 5'J 



thirds as long as the horizontal diameter of the pupil and twice as long as those in the 

 outer series. The lower Jaws are enormously strong, and broad, flattened below, the width 

 measured on the under surface of the head equal to two thirds the widtli of the broad inter- 

 orbital space. The lower jaw projects outside of the upper jaw at the sides a distance 

 apparently equal to half its width, and considerably in front; the lower jaws are thickly 

 studded with depressible teeth, many of them, especially the larger inner ones, strongly 

 barbed, those in front claw like, recurved. On the palatines, three rows of teeth, the mid- 

 dle ones very nuich enlarged and most of them strongly barbed — these being the largest of 

 all the teeth. On the tongue a few weaker teeth, and groups of similar teeth upou the 

 vomer. Gill lamina', gill rakers, and pseudobranchipe as described by Dr. Giinther. 



The dorsal fln contains 17 rays, and is inserted at a distance from the tip of the snout 

 equal to the length of its own base, and slightly greater than one-third of the standard 

 body length. The fourth or longest ray is equal in length to the greatest height of the 

 body. The tirst ray is a rudiment; the second is nearly half as long as the third; the third 

 shghtly shorter than the fourth ; after the fourth the rays diminish rapidly in length to the 

 ninth, which is about half as long as the lower jaw, and subsequent to which the diminution 

 is gradual ; the last ray is about as long as the first. 



There is no adipose dorsal; if ever present, it was obliterated before the specimen came 

 into our jiossession. 



The anal fln contains 11 rays, and is inserted considerably behind the vertical from 

 the termination of the dorsal, at a distance equal to the horizontal diameter of the eye; the 

 length of its base is equal to half tliat of the dorsal, the length of its longest ray (the third) 

 equal to that of the eighth of the dorsal. 



The caudal is slightly forked, its middle rays two-thirds as long as those in the upper 

 lobe, and about equal to the seventh dorsal ray. 



The pectoral tin consists of ir> rays, is inserted under the fourth scale of the lateral 

 line, and at a distance in front of the dorsal equal to half the greatest height of the body. 

 Its length is equal to that of the lower jaw, and the seventh ray is prolonged to a length 

 equal to that of the head, its tip extending to the perpendicular from the tw^elfth dorsal ray. 



The ventral is composed of 8 rays, and its base is almost entirely in advance of the 

 perpendicular from the origin of the dorsal; its length equals half that of the head. The 

 two ventrals are far apart. 



Eadial formula: 1). 17-18; A. 11; C. 10; P. 15; A. 8. Scales, 8 | 74-78 | 8. 



Color brownish, the inside of the branchiostegal flap bluish-black. 



A specimen (No. 38106, U. S. N. M.), 26J inches in length, was obtained by the Albatross 

 from station 2710, in a depth of 984 fathoms. A specimen (No. 33305, U. S. N. M.), lOJ 

 inches in length, was taken by the AUmfross from station 2051, in 1,10(5 fathoms. Another, 

 8J inches in length, was taken by the Albatross from station 2550, in 1,081 fathoms, and 

 another from station 2104, in 991 fathoms. 



Vaillant identified a specimen obtained off the coast of Morocco, in 2,200 meters, with 

 B. AgassizU. Giinther originally described the species from a specimen taken by the dial- 

 lenger, at station 108, oft' the east coast of New Zealand, at a depth of 1,100 fathoms. 



Bathysaurus mollin, Giinther (Challenger Report, xxii, p. 183, pi. XLVi, fig. B), comes 

 from the South Pacific, 2,385 fathoms, and from off Yeddo, 1,873 fathoms. 



HARPODON, Lesueur. 



Harpodon, Lesueur, .Journal Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, v, 50 (type, Salmo (Harpodon) microps, Lcs.= 

 Osmerus neherms, Hamilton Buchanan). — Alcock, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1891, il, 128; 1892, ii, 356. 



The type is an Indo-racilic form which is caught in great quantities in the estuary of the 

 Ganges, and in a dried state is known as the "Bombay Duck." Giinther attributes to the 

 deep-sea fauna a Japanese form described by him as H. macrochir (Fig. fiO), (Challenger 

 Report, XXII, ISO, pi. xlvti, fig. A), being led to do this by the peculiar structure of the 

 specimen. II. sqiiamoxtis, Alcock, is from tlie Indian Ocean, 120, 240, 270, 300 fathoms. 



