2520 Dulletin //, United States National Mnscuni. 



2891. POEOGADUS MILES, Goode & Bean. 



Head 6+ ; depth 10 ; o\ e 5f in bead ; body mueh compressed, cdongate, 

 tapering to a very slender tail; head long, moderately compressed, sub- 

 conical, the profile gradnally ascending in nearly a straight line from tij) 

 of snout to origin of dorsal; interorbital space slightly convex, spiny, its 

 width 4f times in length of head, and slightly greater than diameter of 

 eye; opercles and head generally covered with numerous and strong 

 spines, as described in the generic diagnosis; mouth very large and wide; 

 maxillary extending far behind eye and much expanded at its tip, its 

 length more than 4^ that of head; length of mandible equal to greatest 

 height of body; jaws, vomer, and palatines witli narrow bands of villi- 

 form teeth, none of which is enlarged; -gill rakers 15 on anterior arch 

 below the angle, 3 rudimentary ones above. Anterior pair of nostrils 

 nearly on top of snout and somewhat nearer its tip than to eye, separated 

 by a narroM' space and placed immediately in front of middle of eye; 

 behind each posterior nostril a strong spine projecting outward and 

 upward ; pores of the head arranged much as in Bassozetns ; scales minute ; 

 lateral line not to be clearly made out ; 3 rows of minute pores on each 

 side of dorsal, median, and ventral, beginning near head and extending 

 ^ell toward extremity of tail. Dorsal origin slightly behind vertical 

 through pectoral base, its distance from snout nearly 6 times in length of 

 body, its rays moderately long, the longest about as long as snout, and 

 very numeroiis ; anal origin in vertical from twenty-second or twenty- 

 third dorsal ray, its distance from snout 3*^ times in length of body, its 

 rays about as long as those of dorsal; pectoral imperfect, its length in the 

 type equaling 4 tbat of head; ventrals a bifid filament, placed close to 

 the humeral symphysis, well in adA'ance of pectoral, its length equal to 

 height of body ; distance from origin of ventrals to vent nearly equal to 

 length of head; ventral not reaching vent by a distance equal to length of 

 snout. Color blackish brown. The type (No. 35625, U. S. Nat. Mus.) is 153 

 mm. in length, from Alhalross Station 2230, lat. 38° 27' N., long. 73° 02' W., 

 at a depth of 1,168 fathoms. (Goode & Bean.) {miles, a soldier.) 



Porogadus miles, Goode & Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 602, Lat. 38° 27' N., Long. 

 73° 02' W., in 1,168 fathoms ; GooDE & Bean, Oceanic Icbtbyology, 334, fig. 292, 1896. 



969. PENOPUS, (ioode cV Bean. 



Penopus, Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichtliyology, 335, 1896 {itiacdonaldi). 



Body stout in front, tapering behind; tail not greatly exceeding the 

 length of the rest of the fish; head scaly, thick, its top surface fiat, with 

 depressed and moderately projecting snout; a pair of minute postnasal 

 spines; a strong and much curved spine on the operculum; several weak 

 spines on the angle of the preoperculum, and several at the posterior 

 angle of the suboperculnm ; mouth moderately large, the lower jaw 

 included; several narrow slit-like pores along the margin of the pre- 

 orbital and suborbital; 2 minute pores on under surface of mandible 

 near its symphysis, and not far behind them 2 long slit-like pores; the 



