REPORT ON THE DEEP-SEA FISHES. 6 



the coast of Portugal. With the exception of a specimen taken near Gloucester on the 

 coast of Massachusetts, and of three very young examples obtained by Bleeker in the 

 East Indian Archipelago, no other representative of this genus has been found in any 

 other part of the globe ; and therefore the distribution of this genus is an additional 

 proof of the extraordinary resemblance of the Japanese and Madeiran marine faunas. 



Centrophorus foliaceiis, n. sp. (PL II. fig. A). 



Snout much produced, the mouth being nearer to the first gill-opening than to the 

 end of the snout. The distance between the nostrils is two-sevenths of the length of the 

 prseoral portion of the snout. The labial fold extends a little way along the margins of 

 the mouth ; the angle of the mouth being received into a deep longitudinal slit in the 

 skin. The anterior teeth of the upper jaw triangular, erect, the lateral slightly oblique ; 

 they are arranged in two regular rows. No median tooth in the lower jaw. Pectoral 

 short, with the lower angle rectangular, not produced. Dorsal spines strong, nearly as 

 liigh as the fins. The first dorsal fin rather lower than the second, but with its base 

 longer, the length of the base (without spine) being two-fifths of the distance between 

 the two fins. Extremity of the ventral fin a little behind the dorsal spine. The scales 

 are pedunculate, terminating in three spines, of which the middle is the longest, corre- 

 sponding to a strong median keel on the scale. Uniform greyish. 



Habitat. — Off Inosima, Japan, Station 232; depth, 345 fathoms. One specimen 

 (young male), 16 inches long. 



Ccnitrophorus coelolepis. 



Ceiitroscymmis ccelolrim, Bocage and Capello, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 263, fig. 4; and 



Peix. Plagiost., p. 30, pi. ii. fig. 3. 

 Wright, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1868, vol. ii. p. 426. 

 Centropluirus cuiolcpis, GUnth., Fish., vol. viii. p. 423. 



Probably all the European species of Centrophorus live at great depths, but the 

 present is the only one of which we know this to be the case from actual observations, 

 made by Dr. E. Percival Wright. He found the Portuguese fishermen fishing for them 

 ill 400 or 500 fathoms, with a line of some 600 fiithoms in length. "The sharks caught 

 were from three to four feet long ; as they were hauled into the boat, they fell down into 

 it as so many dead pigs. There could be no reasonable doubt that they were inhabitants 

 of the same great depth as Hyalonema." This species is obtained off the coasts of 

 Portugal and Madeira, and was once found off the coast of Massachusetts. 



Centrophorus squamulosus, n. sp. (PI. TI. fig. B). 



Snout much produced, the mouth being nearly midway between the first gill- 

 opening and the end of the snout. The distance between the nostrils is two-fifths 



