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Radial formnla: B. 4-5; A. 4; 0. 9; P. IG; V. i, 5; B. 6; Gills 2i. 



Color: Body covered above with reticulations of browu, tlie general hue varying- from 

 light yellowish gray to grayish brown, the markings being darker upon darker specimens. 

 Pectorals and caudal fins with about three dark bars; the terminal bars in young very 

 black. Body beneath, milky white. 



Specimens of this species were obtained by the Blake from station cCLix, in 24° 43' N. 

 lat., 8.3° 25' W. Ion., at a depth of 37 fathoms; and from station (viii), off Granada, West 

 Indies, at a depth of 92 fathoms. Also by the Albatross from station 2290, in 3o° 23' N. lat., 

 750 24' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 9ji fathoms; from stations 2121-2, between 10° 37' 40" K. 

 lat., (iio 42' 40" W. Ion., and 10° 37' N. lat., 61° 44' 22" W. Ion., at a depth of from 31 to 

 34 fathoms; from station 2311, in 32° 55' N. lat., 77° 54' W. Ion., at adeptliof 79fathoms; 

 from station 2318, in 24° 25' 45" N. lat., 81° 46' 45" W. lou., ata depth of 45 fiithoms; from 

 station 23S8, in 2'.)^ 24' 30" N. lat., 88° 01' W. Ion., at a depth of 35 fathoms; from station 

 2302, iu 220 08' 30" N.lat., 86° 53' 30" W. Ion., ata deptli of 25 fathoms; from station 2404, 

 in 28^ 44' N. lat., 85° W W. Ion., at a depth of GO fathoms; from station 2405, in 28° 45' N. 

 lat., 85° 02' VV. Ion., at a depth of 30 fathoms; from station 2407, in 28° 47' 30" K lat., 84° 

 37' W. Ion., at a deptli of 24 fathoms; from station 2409, in 27° 04' N. lat., 83° 21' 15" "W. 

 Ion., at a depth of 26 fathoms; from station 2411, in 26° 33' 30" N. lat., 83° 15' 30" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 30 fathoms; from station 2417, iu 33'^ 18' 30" N. lat., 77° 07' W. Ion., at a 

 depth of 95 fathoms. 



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