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DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



BackWaisb, with a green tiuge, iridescent, changing through purplish bhie and bhiish 

 gray to rosy white below, and milky white toward the median line of the belly. Head rosy, 

 iridescent, with red tints most abundant on the forehead, blue under the eyes, cheeks fawn- 

 colored. Throat and under side of the head pearly white, withau occasional tint of lemon- 

 yellow; this is most pronounced iu front of the ventrals and on the anterior i)ortion of 

 ventral lins. Back with numerous maculations of bright lemon oi' golden. Anal purplish, 

 with blue and rose tints, iridescent. Margin of anal rich ])urplish blue, iridescent like the 

 most beautiful mother of pearl; this color pervading more or less the whole fin, which has 

 large yellow maculations. The lower border is rose-colored like the belly, and the base of 

 the fin also partakes of this general hue. Dashes of milk-white on the base of the anal 

 between the rays. 



Dorsal gray. In front of the seventh dorsal the upper third posterior to the upper 

 two-thirds dark brown. Spots of yellow, large, elongate, on or near the rays. Adipose fin 

 whitish brown or yellow; a large group of bright yellow, confluent spots at the base. 



Pectorals sepia colored with rosy and purplish iridescence. 



Viscera, — Stomach small, siphonal, barely more than a loop in the very large intestine. 

 Alimentary canal short, stomach and intestine when stretched out at full length extending 

 from the diaphragm to the caudal. A loop in the intestine immediately posterior to the 

 stomach. Liver with two lobes, nearly equal in length, light chestnut-brown. Gall-bladder 

 large, pendent, pear-shaped, with long duct. Swim-bladder simple, with thick muscular 

 walls, strongly attached to roof of abdominal cavity by numerous root-like appendages, 

 resembling somewhat those of Por/onias. Spleen two-thirds as long as gall-bladder. 



TABLE OF MKASUKEMENTS. 

 [The unit of comparison is the length to the origin of the middle caudal rays.] 



Current number of specimen 



Locality < 



Length to oriKin of middle caudal rays 



Length to end of middle caudal rays' 



Body : 



Ureatest height {at ventrals) 



Greatest width 



Least height of tail 



Leugth of caudal peduncle 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Length of operculum 



Length of uppi-r jaw 



Lriiirtli of mandible 



l)istan. t' frnm snnut to orbit 



LoiiL' dianictiT ol eye 



Dorsal (ailiposr* : 



Distani (■ from snout 



Li-niitli of hase 



Greatest height 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length of first spine (possibly broken) 



Length of second f*piue 



Length of third spine 



Length of fourth spine 



Length of fifth spine (possibly broken) 



Length of sixth spine ; 



Length of seventh spine 



Dorsal (soft): 



Lenirtli of base 



LeuKth of tirst ray 



Lengt h of longest ray (thirteenth) 



Length of last ray 



Anal; 



Distance from snout 



Length of hase 



Length of tirst spine 



Lenjith of second spine 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray (eleventh) ' 



Length of last ray | 



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