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2S786, U. S. N. M., from station 937, in 30^ 49' 25" N. Int., 69° 49' W. Ion., at a depth of GIG 

 fathoms; Cat. No. 31758, U. S. N. M., from station lUO, in 39° 34' N. lat., 71° 56' W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 374 fathoms; Cat, No. 28900, U. S. N. M., from station 994, iii 39° 40' N. lat., 

 71 o 30' W. Ion., at a depth of 3G8 fiithoms; and Oat. No. 31594 ( ?), U. S. N. M., from station 

 1093, in 39° 56' N. hit., 09° 45' W. Ion., at a depth of 349 fathoms. Two other specimens of 

 this or a related species (Cat. No. 2G179, TJ. S. N. M.) were obtained by the Fish Haiclc from 

 station 894, in 39-3 53' N. lat., 70° 58' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 365 fathoms, but they are 

 ill poor condition, and cannot at present be ideutitied. A single individual was taken by 

 X\\& Albatross from station 2561, in 39° 38' N. lat., 71° 42' W.lon., at a depth of 500 fathoms ; 

 and four examples (Cat. No. 35562, U. S. N. M.) from station 2212, in 39^ 59' 30" N. lat., 70^ 

 30' 45" W. Ion., at a depth of 428 fathoms. 



PARALIPARIS, Collett. 



I'dmliparis, CoLLETT, Vid. Selsk. Forb. Christiania, 1878, No. 14, 32 (as subgenus). — Gunther, Challenger 

 Report, XXII, 1887, 68. -Garman (part) Discoboli, 1892, 80. 



Liparids with long, slender, compressed body, attennate posteriorly, covered with loose 

 thin skin. Ventral disk absent. Pseudobranchiie absent. Pectoral fin in two portions. 

 Dorsal aud anal confluent with caudal. Teeth minute, simple. 



PARALIPARIS BATHYBII, Com.f.tt. 



fjparh {Paralipurix) hatlu/hii, Coi.lett, Vid. Selsk. Forh. Christiania, 1878, No. 11,32. 

 LiiHvis bathi/hii, Cor.i.ETT, Norske Nordhavs Expeditioneu, Fisk., p. 52, ]>1. II, fig. 15. 



]'<irlq)ari8 hdlUi/hniK, GiiNTiiEK, Challenger, Report, xxii, 1887, 68, pi. xii, fig. C— Gii.L, Proc. U. S. Nut. Mus., 

 XIII, 1891, 373.— Garman, Discoboli, 1892, 81. 



Head short and globular; equal in length to the depth of the body, and is to total 

 length as 1 to 5i; eyes (orbitie) large, their longitudinal diameter being to the length of the 

 head as 1 to 3^, and to width of interorbital space about as 1 to I3; the dorsal and anal 

 fins covering two-thirds of the caudal; snout short, but slightly exceeding the diameter of 

 the orbit; the upper and lower divisions of the pectorals are separated by a space furnished 

 with 3 to 4 rudimentary rays. (Concerniug the eyes, the ventral disk, aud the i)osition of 

 the vent nothing is known. — Collett.) 



Kadial formula: D. 59; A. 51; P. 13 | 3 (4) 1 3; C. 8. 



Color, brownish-black. 



Length of body in the specimen examined (female) 208 millimeters. [Collett.) 



Collett's tyi)e was obtained 108 kilometers west of Bear Island, in 658 fathoms. The 

 Knight Errnnt collected it at station 8, 1.S82, in 640 fathoms. 



PARALIPARIS COPEI, Goode and Bkan, 11. s. (Figure 253.) 



This species has nearly the same number of rays in the dorsal and anal as are recorded 

 in P. h((llii/liii(s, but the pectoral has 17 rays in the upper portion and 3 in the lower. The 

 jaws are shorter than in P. hathi/hius; the foiin is more elongate and the coloration is strik- 

 ingly different, our species having the anterior half of tlie body pale, almost whitish, while 

 the snout, chin, and anal origin are black. 



The standard length, which is the total without caudal, of the specimen examined is 

 1»>7 millimeters. The greatest height of tiie body (25 millimeters) is slightly greater than 

 the length of the head, which is contained G^ times in the standard length. 



The snout is broad, obtuse, its length (7 millimeters) contained 3.V times in that of the 

 head. The length of the eye ecjuals that of the snout. The interorbital width (11 milli- 

 meters) equals the length of the postorbital part of the head. The nostril is about midway 

 between the eye and the tip of the snout, in a very short tube. Five large mucous ]K)res 

 on each side of the snout, 3 smaller ones on the cheek under the eye and 6 on the man- 

 dible and edge of the opercular liones. The teeth are minute, villiforiii, and in two series. 

 The gill-opening is a very small slit, edged with black at the upper angk', of the pectoral. 

 The origin of the dorsal is distant from the snout 36 millimeters, or IJ times the length of 



