178 BULLETIN 30, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Teeth g?- Vertebra', C. 7; D. 14; L. 15; Ca. 27=G3. Skull like that of 

 C. heavisidei, but the pterygoid region coutracted at the base; the pal- 

 atine aud pterygoid bones long. 



Eahitat.—"^e\y Zealand. 



CEPHALORHYNCHUS EUTROPIA (Gray). 



(Plate 33, tig. 2.) 



Exterior unknown. 



Teeth, ^-- Skull larger than that of G. heanisidei, which it closely re- 

 sembles. Length of rostrum exceeding one-half the total length of the 

 skull. Pterygoid bones long, not widely separated iu the median line, 

 their inner free margins parallel in the proximal half. Vomer termi- 

 natingnearthemiddleof therostrum. Temporalfoss* moderate, squared, 

 i. e., about as deep as long. 



Measurements of the sMll.—{U. S. National Museum, No. 211C7. ?Chili.) 

 Total length, 34.3™; length of rostrum, 18.7""; breadth of rostrum at the 

 base, 7.G ""; at its middle, G.l""; breadth of the intermaxillai at the same 

 point, 2.5"^' ; breadth between orbits, 13.9""'; length of temporal fossa, 

 6.7"" ; depth of temporal fossa, 5.6""'. 



Habitat. — Coast of Chili. 



11. NEOMERIS Gray. 



External and cranial characters like Phocwna, but the dorsal fin 

 absent, being replaced by a number rows of small rounded tubercles. 

 Teeth, H to \l. Vertebra), 63. Color black. 



NEOMERIS PHOC^ENOIDES (Cuvier). 

 (Plate 34, figs. 1 and 2.) 



Snout rounded; head very convex, rising posteriorly high to the dor- 

 sal surface. Back with a longitudinal band of spinous tubercles on the 

 vertebral area, beginning nearly opposite the root of the pectoral, 

 widening to 1.5 inches about the middle, and again contracting and end- 

 ing narrowly opposite or in line with the vent. No dorsal fin. Pecto- 

 ral subfalcate. (Murray.) 



Color black throughout, except that there is a purplish-red patch on 

 the upper lip and one on the throat (! sometimes absent). 



Teeth, ^. Vertebrae, 63. Skull small. Eostrum very short and 

 broad; its length about one-third the total length of the skull, and its 

 breadth about equal to its length.* IntermaxilljTB very broad distally, 

 little, or not at all expanded j)roximally; very high in front of the 

 nares. Vomer visible on the palate near the extremity of the rostrum. 



* Tlie rostrum is longer and narrower in ScMegel's specimen from Japan. 



