DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIHUTION. 503 



Station 2530, in 39° 50' 15" N. lat., 70o 47' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 157 fathoms; from 

 station 2028, in 3!)° 57' 50" N. hit., 70° 32' W. Ion., at a depth of 209 fathoms; from station 

 2025, in 40° 02' jST. hit., 70° 27' W. h)n., at a depth of 239 f;i thorns; from station 2027, in 39° 

 58' 25" N. lat., 70° 37' W. Ion., at a depth of 19S fathoms; from station 2125, in 11° 43' N. 

 hxt., 69° 09' 30" W. Ion., at a deptli of 208 fathoms; from station 2204, in 37° 07' 50" IST. hxt., 

 74° 34' 20" W. Ion., at a depth of 107 ftitlioms; from station 2395, in 28° 30' 15" N. hit., 86° 

 50' W. Ion., at a depth of 347 fathoms; from station 2398, in 28° 45' K, hit. 80° 20' W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 227 fathoms; from station 2394, in 28^ 38' 30" N., lat. 87^ 02' W. Ion., at a 

 depth of 420 fathoms; from station 2025, in 40° 02' N. lat., 70-2 27' W. Ion., at a depth of 

 239 fatlioms; from station 2397, in 28^ 42' N. lat., 86o .30' "W. loii., at adepth of 280 fathoms; 

 and from station 2390, in 28^ 34' N. lat., 80^ 48' W. Ion., at a deptli of 335 tVithoms. 



Specimens were also obtained by the Fish Hawk from the following localities: Cat. 

 No. 20733, U. S. N. M., from station 898, in 37° 24' N. hit., 74° 17' W. h)n., at a depth of 300 

 fathoms; Cat. No. 28784, U. S. N. M., from station 939, in 39° 53' N. hit., 69a 50' 3O", W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 264 fathoms; Cat. No. 26088, CT. S. N. M., from station 879, in 39° 49' 30" N. 

 lat., 70° 54' W. hm., at a depth of 225 fathoms ; Cat. No. 28727, U. S. N. M., from station 925, 

 in 390 55' N. lat., 70^ 47' W. Ion., at a depth of 229 fathoms ; Cat. No. 28830, U. S. N. 31., from 

 station 951, in 39^ 57' N. hit., 70° 31' 30" W.lon., ata depth of 225 fathoms ; Cat. No. 28795, 

 TJ. S. N. M., from station 945, in 39° 58' N. hit., 71° 13' W. Ion., at a depth of 207 fathoms; 

 Cat. No. 29051, U. S. N. M., fr-om station 1045, in 38o 35' N. lat., 73^ 13' W. Ion., at a depth 

 of 312 fathoms; Cat. No. 20175, U. S. N. M., from station 895, in 39° 56' 30" N. hit., 70° 59' 

 45" W. Ion., at a depth of 238 fathoms ; Cat. No. 29071, U. S. N. M., from station 10 19, in 38° 

 28' N. lat., 730 22' W. Ion., at a depth of 435 fathoms; Cat. No. 28907, F. S. N. M., from 

 station 1025, in 39° 49' N. lat., 71° 25' W. Ion., at a depth of 216 tathoms; Cat. No. 

 31881, U. S. N. M., from station 1154, in 39° 55' 31" N. hit., 70© 39' W. Ion., at a depth of 193 

 fathoms; Cat. No. 31705, U. S. N. M., from station 1140, in 39° 34' N. lat., 71° 56' "W. Ion., at 

 a depth of 374 fathoms ; Cat. No. 31761, U. S. N. M., from station 1142, in 39° 32' N. hit., 72° 

 00' W. Ion., at a depth of 322 fathoms; Cat. No. 28898, \J. S. N. M., from station 997, in 39° 

 42' N. lat., 71° 32' W. Ion., at a depth of 335 fathoms; Cat. No. 28801, U. S. N. M., from 

 station 946, in 39° 55' 30" N. hit., 71° 14' W. Ion., at a depth of 247 fathoms ; Cat. No. 28737, 

 TJ. S. N. M., from station 924, in 39^ 57' 30" N. hit., 70^ 40' W. Ion., at a depth of 164 fath- 

 oms; Cat. No. 31744, U. S. N. M., from station 1138, in 39° 39' N. hit., 71° 54' W. Ion., at a 

 depth of 168 fathoms; and live specimens from station 894, in 39^ 53' N. hit., 70^ 58' 30" 

 "VV. Ion., at a depth of 305 fathoms. A single specimen was also captured oft' Block Island 

 in 1880. 



HALICMETUS, Alcock. 



Balicmetiifi, Alcock, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1891, 27. 



Head and anterior ^lart of body very broad and depressed. Front with a transverse 

 bony bridge and a subrostral cavity lodging a fleshy tentacle. Cleft of mouth horizontal. 

 Yilliform teeth in jaws and palatines. Gill-openings small, foramina situated superiorly in 

 the axilhe; two gills; no psendobrauchiic. Head and body with close-set graniform asper- 

 ities and large granular tubercles. No dorsal tin whatever. Anal tin very short. Pyloric 

 appendages and air-bladder absent. Alcock. 



This genus is represented by the single species, Ifal iniicfiis rnhcr, Alcock (1. c.,pl. viii. 

 Figs. 1, Irt, lb), obtained by the " Investigator," in the Bay of Bengal, at Station 115, in 

 188-220 fathoms. Two specimens. 



HALIEUTICHTHYS, Poey. 



HaUeiitichthi/n (Poky), Gill., Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1803, S9 (type, ITaUeuiirlMiis reticiiUilus, Pocy).— 

 Gill., Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., 232.— .Jordan aud Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Miis., 851. 



Maltheids with head merged in body, very large, much depressed, anteriorly corditbrm ; 

 cranial portion not elevated; inteiorbital area low and very narrow, orbits partly superior. 



]\Ioutli terminal, horizontal, protractile jaws ecpial, lower jaw nearly semicircular; vil- 

 liforni teeth upon jaws, vomer, and palatines. 



