2732 Bulletiyi ^j , U?iited States National Museum. 



larger than the two lateral ones ; skin covered with minute granules of uni- 

 form sizf ; pectoral with 16 rays, its length about -^ that of head ; length 

 of upper jaw about ^ of total without caudal; pair of spines at symphysis 

 of mandible replaced by a very small knob ; teeth in intermaxillary very 

 small, diminishing in number toward the symphysis, apparently uniserial. 

 On each side of head of vomer 2 or 3 dcpressible teeth ; palatines appar- 

 ently wanting. We have seen something like traces of similar teeth on 

 the vomer of Manealias uranoscopus, but owing to the condition of th(! 

 specimen can not be certain about this cliaracter. (Goode *S: Bean.) 

 Gulf Stream, oft' the coast of New England. (Named for the eminent 

 ornithologist, Dr. Elliott Coues.) 



Cryptoptaras couegii, Gill, Forest and Stream, Nov. 8, 1883, 284, Gulf Stream off New 

 England (Coll. Albatross) ; Jordan, Cat Fislies, 138, 1885; Goode &, Bean, Oceanic 

 Ichthyology, 491, fig. 402, 1896. 



Ceratias couedi, GiJNTHER, Challenger Report, xxii, 55, 1887. 



?Ceratias c«/Mrt('MZ«?»«, Gi'NXHEB, Challenger Eeport, xxii, 55, pi. ll,flg. d, 1887, south of 

 Yezo, Japan, in 345 fathoms; IJ inches long. (Coll. Challenger.) 



1066. ONEIRODES, Llitken. 



Oncirodes, Lutken, Overs. Kong. Dausk. Vidensk. Selsk. Torhandl. 1871, 56 (eschrichtii). 



Body compressed, oval, short, covered with smooth skin. Head com- 

 pressed, very large. Mouth moderate, almost horizontal, the joint of man- 

 dible behind eyes. Teeth unequal, depressible ; vomer with teeth. Gill 

 arches unarmed ; gills in 21 pairs. Spinous dorsal represented by a cephalic 

 spine, the basal element of which is procumbent and subcutaneous, the 

 tip bulbous, and a second spine about midway between the rostral spine 

 and the p.oft dorsal; soft dorsal and anal short; no ventrals; no pyloric 

 ca*ca. Greenland, {oveipcodr/s, dream-like, in illusion to the small, almost 

 covered, eyes.) 



3113. OXEIBODES ESCHRICHTII, Liitken. 



D. 1-1,6; A. 8; C. 8. Terminal half of the bulb of the cephalic spine 

 whitish. Cephalic spine with a bulbous termination, surmounted by slen- 

 der filaments in several transverse rows. Caudal fin shorter than trunk 

 without head. Color black. Deep sea, off Greenland. Known from a 

 single specimen 8 inches long. (Gill.) (Named for D. F. Eschricht, a 

 Danish naturalist, a student of the Cetacea.) 



Oneirodes eschrichtii, LiJTKEN, Overs. Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. 1871, 56, 9-18, pi. 2, 

 deep sea off Greenland; Gill, Troc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 218; JORDAN & Gilbert, 

 Synopsis, 848, 1883 ; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 492, 1896. 



1067. HIMANTOLOPHUS, Keiuhardt. 



Himantolojihus, Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Nat. 1837, 74 (groenlandicus). 



Head large, compressed. Skin thick, with scattered, round, jirickly 

 scales. Body oval, compressed. Mouth moderate, the cleft oblique, the 

 joint of the mandible below or behiud the eyes. Gills in i 2^ pairs; gill 

 arches armed with dentigerous tubercles. Spinous dorsal re^jresented 



