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trifid, its distal parts covered witli fine shagreen as usual, its 

 length tVoin the insertion li in head; its division at a point 

 one-third the length tVoni insertion. Anterior ventral clasping 

 organ armed with six or seven spinous denticles on the inner 

 side. 



Teeth confluent, seven rods on each anterior lamina of the 

 upper jaw ; margin of lamina sinuate. 



Sensory canal system similar to that of Chimœra phantasma, 

 In that system the jugular branch runs downwards from the 

 suborbital branch below the posterior margin of eye. The lateral 

 canal begins from the intersection of a canal from the nape with 

 the suborbital canal, making a curve with the convexity facing 

 downwards ; the curve shows some undulations, behind it the 

 lateral canal runs very conspicuously undulating as in Chwicera 

 phantasma, the undulation growing more and more inconspicuous 

 behind the insertion of the ventral, and finally running without 

 undulation backwards from the parts vertical from caudal lobe ; 

 it takes its course nearer to back than to belly until just opj)Osite 

 the termination of dorsal fin, when it abruptly bends to the lower 

 side, and is thus continued into and along the filament. 



Color in formalin silvery, more or less dusky ; some faint 

 dark stripes run along upper part of body ; free margins of 

 dorsals blackish. Lateral line raised, brownish. Although the 

 body shows a rather dusky coloration in the specimens preserved 

 in formalin, yet it may be assumed that the body in fresh state 

 shows a brilliant silvery color. Above the lateral line the body 

 is entirely marked with narrow transverse broken lines of a brown 

 color. 



