310 EXPEDITION OF THE " AL15ATHOSS," 1899-1!)()(). 



ing an even curve with the margm of the soft dorsal fi'dni the tij) of tlie secontl 

 spine, is sHghtlj' falcate; a condition due to the second spine exceeding the third 

 in length, it being about .2 longer; the second sj^ine of the anal is similar to the 

 2nd spine of the dorsal and has 9 or 10 denticles about the middle of its anterior 

 edge; dorsal IX, 23 instead of IX, 22; anal III, 20, instead of III, 21. 



Teuthis guttatus (Bloch & Schneider). 



Acanthnrus guUatus Bloch & Schneider, >S3'st. Ichth., 1801, p. 21."i. 



Hepalus guttalus Jordan & Everm.\nn, Bull. U. .S. Fish. Comm., lilU.j, 23, pi. 1, p. o92, lig. 170. 

 JoRD.VN & Se.\le, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 3.54. 



No. A160, 9 inches, and A161, M. C. Z. 29755, 85 inches long from Tari- 

 tari, Gilbert Islands, Nos. A47, 7 inches long, and A48, M. C. Z. 29756, 7i inches 

 long, from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. 



Teuthis mata (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Acantliuriis mata Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., 183.5, 10, ]>. 148 (202). Day, Fishes of Iiuliii, 

 1876, p. 205, pi. 48, fig. 1. 



No. A24, M. C. Z. 29736, 111 inches long from Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands. 



This specimen has the head 4 in length; depth 2.18; eye 4.44 in head; 

 snout 1.87; preorbital 2.30; pectoral 1.74 in depth; dorsal IX, 25; anal III, 

 23; 9 teeth on each side in upper jaw. 



No. A38, a specimen 12i inches long from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. 



This specimen has the head 3.81 in length; depth 2.25; eye 4.2 in head; 

 snout 1.97; preorbital 2.42; pectoral 1.73 in depth; dorsal IX, 25; anal III, 

 232; 10 teeth on each side in upper jaw. 



Tail when spread has the inner portion truncate and the outer rays pro- 

 duced, somewhat lunate when not spread; length of the head about equal to 

 its depth in a line through the middle of the eye. 



Color dark brown, with numerous narrow, wavy, longitudinal, bluish strijies, 

 these alike on head and body; they meet on the front jirofile of the head; breast 

 with coarser stripes; pectoral brown, grading into a ]iale bluish terminal margin, 

 into which the brown of the rays continue; caudal, anal, and dorsal daik brown, 

 dorsal and anal with a darker margin; ventrals brown. 



