424 NEW FISHES FBOM PACIFIC OCEAN— GILBERT 4- CRAMER. vol.xix. 



scarcely extending' beyond month, its anterior profile subvertical, its 

 tip distant from premaxillaries one-halt length of orbit. Tip of snont 

 a small prominent spinigerous tubercle; a much smaller tubercle at 

 each side of it. A median ridge extends backward from the tubercle 

 to about the middle of the interorbital space, and at each side a 

 smaller ridge from the minute lateral tubercles, above the nostril and 

 coalesces with the superior orbital rim. A small s])ineless groove 

 between the median and each of the lateral ridges. Interorbital space 

 If in orbit, ilat or a little concave. Orbit very large, -!| in head, 

 elliptic 111 shai)e, its greatest diameter obliquely downward and back- 

 ward. Mouth small, maxillary reaching about to front of pupil, one- 

 half length of snout and eye. Teeth in villilbrni bands in both jaws. 

 Angle of preopercle not produced backward. Barbel small, scarcely 

 half the diameter of orbit, (lill membranes rather broadly united, 

 with a narrow free fold behind. Anterior gill slit very short, about 3 

 in diameter of orbit. Body compressed, its width about one-half its 

 depth. Tail veiy slender. Scales somewhat deciduous, small, veiy 

 thin and flexible, with 3 or 4 slender, flexible spinelets (on a scale from 

 side of back, near first dorsal fin). Scales on cheeks and top of head 

 with from 1 to 3 spines in a single series, those on opercles with about 

 8 or fewer spines, usually in 3 parallel series. Spines on head shorter, 

 suberect. About 10 or 11 scales in a transverse series between lateral 

 line and origin of first dorsal. Interorbital space, upper side of snout, 

 infraorbital ring, cheeks and opercles, scaly. Second dorsal spine 

 serrate. Base of first dorsal a little greater than interorbital space. 

 Interspace between dorsals short, about equaling base of first dorsal. 

 Pectorals If in head. Outer ventral rays elongated (but broken off 

 in the single specimen). Distance from tip of snont to origin of anal 

 only twice the depth. Origin of anal under middle of first dorsal; its 

 distance from base of ventrals five-sixths diameter of eye. Distance 

 fiom vent to isthmus about half length of head, vent nearer anal than 

 ventrals. 



Color [in alcohol). — General color brownish black. Abdomen jet 

 black. Mouth and gill cavity dusky or blackish. Fins dusky. Peri- 

 toneum black. 



One specimen, 5| inches long, from station 3173; 313 fathoms. 



Tyjje.—^so. 47718, U.S.N.M. 



MACROURUS PROPINQUUS, new species. 

 (Plato XLII, i\g. 2.) 



Head oltoSf; depth GA. B. 7. First dorsal I, 13: i)ectorals 21 to 

 22; ventrals IG. 



Head rather large. Snout short, broad, overhanging mouth but 

 little, its anterior i>rofile nearly vertical, its length 1^ in orbit: a small 

 median spinigerous tubercle at the tip and an indistinct one at each 

 side: the median tubercle nearly on a level with upper margin of orbit. 



