15. GLOBICEPHALUS G. MELAS. 



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yellow. Belly grayish wliite. Body marked with mmieroas and con- 

 spicuous ligbt-colored, irregular, and unsymmetrically-placed striae 



Young.— Baik gray above, grayish white below. Head wliitisli, 

 strongly tinged with yellow. Side with five or more narrow, vertical, 

 and nearly equidistant lines. 



Teeth I to ^. VertebnTi: C. 7; D 12; L. 19; Ca. 30 = 08. 



Skull massive. Eostrum expanded in front of the maxillary notches, 

 obtusely pointed; its length one-half the entire length of the skull. 

 Intermaxilho moderately convex on the rostrum; the prenareal area 

 elevated; the spaces between the inner free margin become wider 

 rather suddenly near the extremity of the rostrum. Vomer extending 

 nearly to the extremity of the rostrum, not usually visible on the 

 palate. Pterygoids large and prominent; largely in contact in the 

 median line. Temporal fossie oval, their wall largely covered by the 



vsquamosal. 



Measurements of the exterior.— AduU 9 . Total length, 12G inches 

 (320'™; length of mouth, 10^ inches (2G.7"") ; tip of snout to anterior 

 base of dorsal fin, 47 inches; length of pectoral fin, 23f inches; vertical 

 height of dorsal fin, 10 inches ; breadth of flukes, 29 inches. 



Measurements of the s]cull.—(U. S. National Museum, No. 15890. Adult. 

 Cape Cod, Massachusetts.) Total length, 53""; length of rostrum, 

 2G""; breadth of rostrum at base, 20.5""; breadth of rostrum at its 

 middle, 12.8""; breadth of intermaxilLT. at same point, 0""; breadth 

 between orbits, 34.2"" ; length of temporal fossa, 13.3"". 



Bahitat.—l^OYih Atlantic and North P..cific Oceans; North Sea; 

 Mediterranean; coast of the United States, Capo Cod; Atlantic (Jity, 

 N. J.; Massachusetts; Cape of Good Hope {G. riehardsoni Gray); 

 California {G. stearnsii Dall); Japan (6?. saimmata Gray). 



15. GLOBICEPHALUS Gray. 



Ptostrum short and very broad. Pvostral portion of iutermaxilliT? flat 

 and very broad (sometimes covering the entire anterior half of the ros- 

 trum). Symphysis of mandible short. Pterygoid bones large and in 

 contact. Teeth few and large, 7 to 11, confined to the anterior half 

 of the rostrum. Vertebrai, 57 to GO. 



Head globular, with a rounded protuberance on the lip; beak want- 

 ing; mouth oblique. Dorsal tin very long, low, and thick. Pectoral 

 fins narrow and very long. Color black. 



GLOBICEPHALUS MELAS ^Traill). 



(Plate 40, figs. 1 and 2.) 



Size large; form stout. Head globose; forehead protuberant, over- 

 hanging the lip in adult individuals ; body especially deep opposite the 

 dorsal fin. Pectoral fins very long, slender, and pointed ; length about 



