Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2129 



not overpassed l>y the snout, the lower jaw slightly shorter than the upper, 

 not distiuctly included; maxillary reaching a vertical from posterior 

 edge of orbit, its length 2i in head, its width Ig in head; upper lip 

 complete, the fold of lower lip extending halfway from augle of moiith to 

 symphysis. Bands of teeth very wide in the front of each jaw, becoming 

 narrow laterally, where the series are few in number and nearly parallel 

 with the jaw; anteriorly the series grow more and more oblique, until 

 at front of jaw they are nearly transverse; teeth all simple and slender, 

 without cusps, directed very ol)liquely backward, and movable, implanted 

 so as to admit of still further depression; outer teeth in both jaws very 

 short, the inner ones growing gradually longer and becoming acicular, 

 16 series of teeth on each side of lower jaw, 22 series on each side of 

 upper jaw. Posterior nostril in a short wide tube. Eye large, the diame- 

 ter of its exposed portion 2| in total interorbital width. Cheek and 

 temporal region swollen, the suborbital stay running in a notable depres- 

 sion between the two. Gill slit wide, extending downward to opposite 

 upper pectoral rays, longer than snout, 2|in head. Mucous pores minute, 

 on sides of snout, mandible, and preopercle, none visible on top of head. 

 Disk large, nearly round, its center slightly in advance of gill slit, its 

 length 3J^ in head, distance from its posterior margin to vent equaling 

 % its own diameter. A small anal papilla. Pyloric ca?ca 19. Pectoral 

 with 34 rays, not notched, the lower rays regularly diminishing in length 

 to«the fifth or sixth before the last, the next 2 or 3 abruptly lengthened 

 and exserted ; longest ray of upper lobe equaling snout and eye ; longest 

 ray of lower lobe equaling snout and \ eye; dorsal fin beginning slightly 

 behind upper axil of pectorals and with 43 rays, the longest equaling dis- 

 tance from tip of snout to front of pupil; origin of anal fin with \ diame- 

 ter of eye in front of middle of body, with 34 rays; caudal ray long and 

 slender, with 12 rays, its basal f confluent with dorsal and anal, its length 

 equal to that of pectoral fin. Skin thin, not conspicuously lax. Head, body, 

 and fins Avhite, inconspicuously mottled Avith light brown. A single speci- 

 men, 315 mm. in total length, from Station 3342, oif Queen Charlotte Island, 

 British Columbia, depth 1,588 fathoms. The type is a male, with well- 

 developed testes, and contained in its mouth, when captured, a spherical 

 mass of eggs apparently of the same species. The eggs measured 44- mm. 

 in diameter, and were well along in their development, the embryos dis- 

 tinctly visible through the very tough egg membranes. The general form 

 of head and body can be made out, as well as the long continuous dorsal 

 and anal fins running backward into the tail. It seems not improbable 

 that the male fish protect the eggs in this manner until after hatching. 

 (D.43; A. 34; P. 34; C. 12.) (Gilbert.) {ox-mn, egg; (jero, I bear.) 



Bathyphasma ovigenim, Gilbert, Rept, U. S. Fish Coiiim. 1893 (1896), 448, off Queen Char- 

 lotte Island, at Albatross Station 3342, in 1,588 fathoms. (Type, No. 48622.) 



787. CAREPROCTUS, Kroyer. 



Careproetut, KeOyer, Naturh. Tidsskr., i, 257, 1862 (reinhardi) . 

 Oaremitra, Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fishes, 452, 1896 (siniiis). 

 Allochir, Jordan &, Evermann, Check -List Fishes, 452, 1896 (melanuru*), 

 Allurus, Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Pishes, 452, 1896 (ectenes). 



