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exteuding far behind eye, its lengtli less than that of preorbital portion 

 of head; mandible as long as postorbital portion of head; jaws, vomer 

 and palatines with narrow bauds of villiform teeth, normally arrano-ed. 

 Branchiostegals 8. Gill lamelhe very short; gill rakers long and numer- 

 ous, 18 on first arch below the angle, 5 above, 4 of which are rudimentary. 

 PseudobranchitB present, but very rudimentary. Anterior nostrils on th<^ 

 top of the snout and near the median line of the head, near its tip, separ- 

 ated by a space about equal to diameter of eye ; posterior nostrils in front 

 ^f eye. Muciferous pores large, arranged much as in B. catena. Dorsal 

 origin in the same vertical with that of pectorals, its distance from tip of 

 snout contained 5 times in total and equaling twice length of maxillary. 

 Rays well developed in anterior third, the longest J of head ; anal origin 

 under twentieth dorsal ray, its rays nearly as long as those of dorsal; 

 pectoral with its penultimate ray produced, cxteudiug to thirteenth ray 

 of anal, nearly twice as long as head ; ventrals originating in advance of 

 vertical through pectorals, and each a bifid filament; distance of ven- 

 tral origin from tip of snout equaling length of ventral and about f as 

 long.ashead; distance of ventral origin from vent considerably greater 

 than length of head; distance from tip of ventral to vent equal to i the 

 length of the head. Number of scales in transverse series from vent to 

 dorsal about 23; from the upper angle of the gill opening to the vertical 

 through origin of anal 32. Color brownish yellow ; head and abdomen 

 blackish. The type (No. 37342, U. S. Nat. Mus.) was taken at Albatross 

 Station 2380, Lat. 28" 02' 30" N., Long. 87° 43' 45" W. in 1,430 fathoms. It 

 is 183 mm. long to the caudal base, 215 with caudal. Anoth(^r young speci- 

 men, 70 mm. long, was taken at Blake Station XCV, off Dominica, in 330 

 fathoms. (Goode «fe Bean.) (jJccforaMs, pertaining to the breast.) 

 Nematonus j)ectoralis, GoonE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885,004. Lat. 28° 02' 30" N., 

 Long. 870 43' 45" W., in 1,430 fathoms (Type, Ko. 37342. Coll. Albatross) ; GOnthek, 

 Challenger Keport, xxn, 114, 1887 ; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 333, lig. 295, 1896. 



968. POROGADUS, Goode & Bean. 



Porogadus, Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 682 (miles). 



Body brotulifomi, much compressed; head with numerous spines on 

 interorbital space, 2 pairs on the shoulders, 1 at angle of operculum 

 and a double series on angle of preoperculnm; head with numerous 

 mucous jiores, as in Bassozetus; mouth large; snout moderate, not pro- 

 jecting much beyond the upper jaw; jaws nearly equal in front; teeth in 

 villiform bands in jaws and on vomer and palatines; barbel none; gill 

 openings wide, membranes narrowly united, not attached to the isthmus; 

 gills 4; gill laminsB short; gill rakers moderate, numerous; pseudo- 

 branchiie absent; caudal fin of few rays, on a very narrow base, not i)ro- 

 louged, scarcely dift'ereutiated from the vertical fins; dorsal and anal fins 

 well developed; pectorals simple, mt)derate ; each ventral a single bifid 

 ray close to the humeral symphysis; IjranchiostegalsS; scales small; lateral 

 line apparently triple, or replaced by 3 series of pores — 1 close to ventral 

 outline, 1 median, and another along base of dorsal, {itopoi, pore; Gadus, 

 the codfish.) 



