204 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



olate, in single rows, with larger ones in front: a series of small teeth on the palatines. 

 Fins as in Lepidopus. (Gilnther.) 



EVOXYMETOPON T^NIATUS, Poey. (Figurp2U.) 



Evori/metopon Uvniaius, (Poey,) Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1803, 228; Ann. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Il, 

 1873, 77, PI. V. 



The greatest height eijiials about a twelfth of the extreme leugth, while the head forms 

 about an eighth of the same. The head is oblong, trenchant above, elevated above the 

 eyes for a space considerably greater than the diameter of the eye, and deeurved very 

 obliquely downwards to the snout. The diameter of the orbit enters about C times in the 

 head's length. The first ten dorsal spines are undivided; the rest split. 



Radial formula: B. 7; D. 87; A. 19; 0. 17; P. 12. 



The color is silvery, with about si.x narrow reddish bands most distinct behind, the 

 first on the ridge of the back and the fifth along the lateral line. (Poey.) 



The following table indicates the relative proxjortions of the Emxymetopon Uvniatus. 



Measurements. 



Millimeters, 



Extreme lengtli 100 



Body : 



Greatest height 8 



Height at anus 61 



Height of tail hetweeu auus and caudal lin 5 



Least height of tail J 



Head : 



Greatest leugth 12 



Distance from snout to nape 7 



Length of snout 4^ 



Leugth of operculum 4i 



Length of lower jaw 5 



Orbit: 



Diameter 2 



Distance from profile 2J 



Dorsal : 



Height at first spine 3 



Height at second spine 3| 



Height at ray above anus 1 J 



Height at ray between anus and caudal li 



Caudal : 



Length of external rays 3i 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout at upper axilla 14 



Length 6J 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 17i 



Length 2i 



A specimen obtained by Poey at Havana was presented by him to the National Museum 

 (No. 5735), and a figure of it is here given. 



Evoxymetopon Poeyi, Giinther, fi'om the Mauritius is a very closely related form. 



BENTHODESMUS, Goode and Bean. 



Benthodesmus, Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 380, PI. n. (type, LrpuhjiiiK eloii/iatus, 

 Clarke.) — .Jordan and Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 910. 



Body naked, much compressed, attenuate, tapering gnulually from vent to base of 

 caudal. Caudal peduncle very slender, supporting a small but well developeil caudal fin. 

 Vent considerably nearer to head than to tail. Lateral line simple, in a deep, wide furrow, 

 nearly straight, in front of the vent gradually ascending to tlie scapular region. 



Head compressed, its upper profile nearly horizontal; snout gibbous near its end. as in 



