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The third one was obtained February 1907 at Yodomi,''' 

 Sagami Sea, from a depth of about TOO fathoms. It belongs to 

 Mr. Alan Owston. This specimen served for drawing up tlie 

 following description : 



Body oval, not compressed ; rather abruptly tapering anteri- 

 orly and posteriorly ; caudal peduncle much compressed. Head 

 large ; eye very small, lateral, nearer upper profile of head than 

 angle of mouth by the distance from the profile to eye ; nostril 

 tubular, with two lateral openings. Mouth horizontal, ga2^e 

 moderate. Jaws equal, armed each w'ith a narrow band of 

 long sharp teeth ; no teeth on vomer and palatines. Gill- 

 opening small, behind and beneath pectoral, directed downward 

 and backward. Gill arches h, 2, i ; surface of the arch can not 

 be determined whether tubercled or smooth. Cephalic tentacle 

 above eye, the tip englarged into a bulb which is provided with 

 a four-lobed prominence ; from the middle of the bulb rises a 

 forked process ; about o long filaments issue from the bulb and 

 thereabout, one of which branches into two ; when pressed 

 backward, the tip of the bulb nearly above base of pectoral and 

 beyond the middle between the insertion of tentacle and that of 

 dorsal ; the filaments reach to the terminal parts of the base of 

 dorsal. Back with deep depression before and behind the tentacle ; 

 soft dorsal and anal small, the rays of both the fins branched ; 

 insertion of anal beneath the last ray of dorsal ; membrane of 

 soft dorsal and anal adnate to caudal peduncle. Pectoral placed 

 rather low, broadly rounded, the rays branched. No veutrals. 

 Caudal broadly rounded, the rays branched. Skin smooth, with 

 sparsely scattered spines. Cephalic tentacle without spines, but 

 with fine prickles. 



* Fee IjiMA, I.e. 



