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lower jaw included; maxillary extending to below the middle of the eye, 

 which is equal to the .snout, and about 4i in head; suborbital stay and the 

 roughish edge of the preopercle both covered by smooth skin; chin and 

 preorbital with pores; skin everywhere thin, somewhat movable, its sur- 

 face roughened by small blunt warts; dorsal tin continuous, the feeble 

 spines lower than the soft rays; pectorals barely reaching anal; cau(hil 

 long. Color pale, with 3 broad, dusky cross bahds on body and fins, 1 on 

 head, 1 through spinous dorsal and pectoral, and 1 through second dorsal 

 and anal, besides a small band at base of caudal. Length 8 inches. Deej) 

 water off coasts of Norway and Rhode Island ; taken by the United States 

 Fish Commission in the expeditions of the Blake, Fish Hmvk, and Albatross. 

 Here described from specimens taken oif Rhode Island, {/.iiupoi, small; 

 ooip, eye.) 



Cottunculus microps, Collett, Norges Fiske, 20, jil. 1, figs. 1-3, 1875, Hasvig, near Ham- 

 merfest, Norway, in 200 fathoms (Coll. Prof. G. P. Sars) ; Collett, Meddelelser cm 

 Norges-Fiske, 1875-78, 1879; Collett, Forb. Vid. Selsk., Christiania, 1880, 11 ; Collett, 

 Norsk. Nordh. Exped., 18, pi. 1, figs. 5, 6; Xyt. Mag. f. Naturvid., xvnr, 53, 1884; Strom, 

 Norsk. Vid. Selsk. Skrift. 1880, 75; Goodb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 470; Goode & 

 Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.,x, 212, 1883; Lilljeborg, Sverig. och. Norg. Fiske, 113; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsi.s, 688, 1883; Gunther, Challenger Report, xxn, 60, pi. 9, 

 fig. A, 1887 ; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 269, figs. 257 and 261, A, B, 1896. 



2364. C0TTUXCULU8 THOMSONII (Giinther). 



Head 2^; depth 3A to 4; eye 4^ in head; snout 4+ ; D. VI, 17; A. 13; P. 22; 

 V.I, 3; C. 10. Head and body smooth, scaleless, covered with a tough, 

 lax skin ; length of head nearly ^ extreme length of body, including cau- 

 dal, its greatest height i body without caudal ; greatest width of head 

 twice length of maxillary ; distance of vent from insertion of anal equals 

 length of maxillary; eye close to dorsal profile; intermaxillary long and 

 slender, slightly more than 3 times in distance from tip of snout to inser- 

 tion of first dorsal, 3^ in head ; maxillary very slender, except in posterior 

 third, where it is considerably expanded; mandible very stout, posteriorly 

 widened, its length contained nearly 2| times m head. Teeth in broad, 

 villiform bands on intermaxillary and mandible; 2 short, separate, similar 

 bands on vomer; none on palatines. Head armed with bluut spines as in 

 C. microps. Distance of dorsal from tip of snout nearly e(i[ual to ^ total 

 length, caudal included; anal fin midway between tip of snout and end of 

 caudal; length of upper pectoral rays equal to that of postorbital portion 

 of head, its rays diminishing rapidly in size, the lowest being exceedingly 

 short; distauce of ventral from tip of snout \ of total length without 

 caudal; length of free portion of ventral equals eye. Color light brown, 

 the fins somewhat darker. Northern Atlantic, in deep water. Length 6 

 inches. Specimens obtained by the Blake from Station 306, in 41° 32' 50" 

 north latitude, 65'= 55' west longitude, etc. ; also by the Albatross from Sta- 

 tion 2181, in 39" 29' north latitude, 71° 46' west longitude, etc., and by the 

 Fish Haivk from Station 1029, in 39° 57' 6" north latitude, 69° 16' west 

 longitude, etc. (Named for Sir C. Wyville Thompson, Regius professor 

 of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, first Director of the 

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