2128 Bu/lcim 47, United States National Museum. 



anal, it rises gradually, and attains its greatest extent in tlie jjosterior 

 third of its length. Professor Liitken gives the following as the formula : 

 Dorsal 43 to 49; anal 3G to 40; ijectoral 32 to 38; caudal 9 to 11. The 

 sijecimens described here, and from which the numbers jilaccd at the 

 head of this description were taken, were furnished this Museum by him. 

 From his large series he finds a greater range of variation in all cases 

 except that of the caudal, where 12 to 14 rays appear on these examples. 

 Color olivaceous to dark brown, darkest about the head and body. On 

 close examination the .skin is seen to be thickly puncticulate with brown, 

 in cases forming cloudings, blotches, or transverse bands on the fins and 

 hinder parts of the body. In life there is no doubt of the presence of 

 tints of lilac, reddish, or yellowish. One of these specimens has 6 hands 

 of brownish on the dorsal, and 4 on the anal. Our largest is 5 inches in 

 length. (Garman.) Coasts of Greenland, east to the White Sea; not 

 seen by us; the description from a specimen in the Museum Comp. ZooL, 

 sent by Dr. Liitken. (Eu.) (ikfo/or, larger.) 



Cyclopterus liparis major, Fabricius, Fauna Gronland., 136, 1780, Greenland; Walbaum, 

 Artedi Piscium, m, 489, 1792; after Fabricius ; not a binomial name, viajor hemg sim.- 

 ply an adjective. 



Liparis Uinicata, Kroyee, Naturh. Tidsskr., I, 236, 1862 ; not of Eeinhardt. 



Actinochir major, Gill, Proc. Ac. K'at. Sci. Phila. 1864, 193, Greenland. 

 _ Liparis fabricii, Lutken, Kara-Haves, Fiske, 146, 1887. 



iipam major, Joedax & Gilbert, Synopsis, 741, 1883; Garman, Discoboli, 72, 1892. 



786. BATHYPHASMA, Gilbert. 



Bathiiphasma, Gilbert, Rept. IT. S. Fish Couim. 1893 (1896), 447 (ovigerum). 



Teeth long, slender, simple, without basal cusps. Disk large, its sur- 

 face even, with evident lobes or horny jiapilla^ under posterior part of the 

 head; the anus not immediately behind it. Gill opening comparatively 

 wide. Caudal long, well develojied, not acuminate, containing 12 rays, 

 the dorsal and anal confluent with its basal |; pectoral broad and con- 

 tinuous, as in Liparis, the lower rays exserted. Suborbital process strong. 

 Vertebra} numerous. The typical species has much the shape and general 

 appearance of Liparis agassizii. The character of the simple teeth, which 

 this genus shares with Faraliparis and others, has been independently 

 acquired. (Gilbert.) Skeleton soft, little ossified. Deep-sea Liparids of 

 large size, the dentition unlike that of the other genera, and apparently 

 not acquired by the same line of descent as the simple teeth of Parali- 

 paris, which seems to be a degradation of the form seen in Liparis. 

 {/5aBvz, deep sea; (jtadi-ia, apparition.) 



24,59. BATHYPHASMA OVIGERUM, Gilbert. 



Head 3f ; depth 3f ; eye 7. Occipital region greatly elevated, the upper 

 profile of head strongly decurved above the orbits, a line from occiput to 

 end of premaxillary processes forming an angle of 4.5 degrees Avith axis 

 of body. In front of tips of premaxillary processes the snout descends 

 almost vertically. Posteriorly the body tapers uniformly and slowly, the 

 width of base of tail equaling 4^ diameter of eye. Mouth large, horizontal, 



