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eye and broad; lips rather thin; teeth .small, compressed, and each of 

 those in the upper jaw with two sharp basal cups; .spiracles large, 

 nearer the eye than the tirst gill opening, and the space between 

 1^ in the snout. Giil-opening in front of the base of the pectoral, 

 and rather short. Dorsal fins each with a spine, the base of the first a 

 little before the tip of the pectoral, short, sharp pointed and project- 

 ing a little above the skin; the second dorsal spine not as high as the 

 fin, but much larger and longer than the first, with the greater portion 

 exposed, and nearh^ a third greater than the snout; ventrals moderate 

 and entirely in front of the second dorsal; caudal elongate and the 

 lower lobe little produced. 



Color in .spirits dark gra3^ish brown, and the lower margin of the 

 caudal, together with the marginal portions of all the other fins, very 

 pale l)rown. The pale areas on the sides of the l)elly co\'er a glandular 

 su])stancc said to be luminous in life. 



This description from .specimens from MLsaki, measuring i:^ inches, 

 from the collection of Capt. Alan Owston, No. (istj^, Stanford Univer- 

 sit}' Zoological Museum. Some thirt}' others of the .same species were 

 obtained otf Misaki on long lines handled by Mr. Kumakichi Aoki, 

 assistant to Professor ^Nlitsukuri. 



DEANIA, new genus. 



2. DEANIA EGLANTINA Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head 3f in length; depth al)out U'^: snout about 'J. in the head, 2 'u\ 

 the width of the snout; eye 4f in the head, 2f in the snout, and 3f in the 

 space between tip of snout and mouth; space between the spiracles. 

 1| in the width of the snout. 



Fig. 2.— Deania Eglantina. «, upper jaw; b, lower jaw; c, scale (much enlarged). 



Body rather elongate and slender; scales each with 3 or -i short, 

 radiating, bristle-like spines with two small prickles on each side, the 

 whole body having a kind of hair\' appearance, and velvety to the touch. 

 The peculiar striated markings seen in EttnopUrus are wanting. 



Head large, greatly depressed; snout long, depressed, and broad; 

 eyes large, lateral, and the anterior margin nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the gill opening; skin around the eyes more or less loose and 

 free; nostrils large, on the lower side of the snout laterally and about 

 midway between the tip of the snout and the e3'e; mouth opening 



