DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 491 



times ill Mils Icnjjtb. This form is more slender than that figured by Giintber, and has five 

 rays In the dorsal, and apparently fifteen in the ]>ectoral. 



There are no vomerines. The intermaxillary and mandible are armed with a narrow 

 hand of depressible teeth of various lengths. The skin has a fine granidar appearance 

 and is everywhere eovered with minute ])rickles. The median dermal caruncle referred to 

 in the description of this species has been torn off. The caruncles are only 1! in number 

 and situated as in Mancalias uranoscopn^. as figured in the Cballeuger Fishes. The length 

 of the dorsal si)ine, without the joint bearing the pear-shaped api>endag(^, equals the dis- 

 tance from the gill opening to tlic root of the tail; the joint bearing the appendage is 

 two-fifths of this distance. The length of the specimen at jwesent is about 2| inches. lu 

 31((nr<tli<in in-((ii(>.sropn>! (lifil:")!!) the first dorsal, without the joint bearing the appendage, 

 contains the distance IVom the gill opening to the root of the tail 1^ times. The joint con- 

 taining the appendage is one-half as long as the distance from the gill opening to the root 

 of the tail. The dermal caruncles are distant from the dorsal a space equal to one-sixth of 

 the distance from the gill opening to the root of the tail. In Tyiililnjisanis Shiifeldtil the 

 caruucles are placed at a distance from the dorsal a space contained 4i times in the dis- 

 tance from the gill opening to the root of the tail. 



In the specimens described by (xoode and I>eau as Mancdliitu urdno^copnft (No. 26159), 

 the length '■V\ inches, the length of the maxilla is one-third the length from the gill ojtening 

 to the root of the tail, and the iutermaxilla 3.J times in the same distance. The teeth in the 

 iaws are depressible, in narrow bands, and of unequal size. The vomer is toothless. 



There are two small caruncles not far from the front of the dorsal fin, and instead of 

 being placed opposite each other, according to the usual arrangement, one is placed 

 behind the other. The skin is covered with minute granules or papilliie, each one sur- 

 mounted by a slender ]»rickle, as in Ti/])]i1oj»<(ira,s. 



Th(^ l)ectoral of (ids indi\idnal contains 15 rays. The pectorals of 7'. Shitffhitii are 

 imjterfect. 



In the note jiublished by Dr. Goode in Proceedings IT. S. Nat. Mas., vol. in, 1881, 

 40!t, the length of this specimen is stated to be 185 millimeters, which is a uusprint for 85 

 nullimeters. 



CRYPTOPSARAS, Gill. 

 CrijplnpsariiK, OiLl., Forest, anil Stream, Nov. 8, 1883, 284. 



Ceratiines with shortened trunk, longitudinally convex? back, small but conspicuous 

 eyes, concealed basal joint of the anterior spine and elongated ternunal joint, a large inter- 

 mediate globular, and a pair of subi)edunculated lateral dorsal api)endages near the front 

 of the dorsal fin, and well developed pectorals of about 15 rays, {(rill.) 



Giiuther's Cciatius carKueiihtfiis was obtained by the VhaUcnffcr froju a depth of 345 

 fathoms, at station 232, south of Yeddo, in Japan, the single specimen being IJ inches 

 long. 



CRYPTOPSARAS COUESII, Glix. (Fig. 402.) 



Crypiopmrm Cnursii, GiLl,, Forest aud Stroaiii, Nov. 8,188.3, 281.— .Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A. 1885, 1.39.— 



[(ii'NTHFi!, CliallenjiiT Report, XXII, 55.] 

 Ciraliaa ciiruiiciildliis, GOntiiei!, op. cH., 55, pi. XI, lig. J). 



The basal joint of the rodlike spine is almost entirely concealed and procumbent, and 

 th(^ distal joint alone free, reaching backward to the dorsal tubercle; the bulb is pyriform, 

 and surmounted by a long whitish filament; the dorsal and aiial have each 4 S])iues, the 

 caudal 8 (the 4 middle dichotomous), and the pectorals each about 15 rays. The species 

 was named after the eminent ornithologist Dr. Elliott Coues. {Gill.) 



A si>ecinien of Cri/pfoii.siiroK (flat. No. .3.3558, IT. S. Nat. JIus.) was obtained, by the 

 Alhiitross, from station 2101, iu 38° 18' 30" N. lat., 08° 24' W. Ion., at a depth of 1C8G 

 fathoms. 



