NO. 1303. JAPANESE OPHIDIOID FISHES— JORDAN AND FO WLER. 749 



Length 5|f inches (150 millimeter.s). 



Ti/jje. — No. 50578, U. S. National Museum. 



Locality, Station 3708, off Kinkwazan in Matsushima Ba}', where it 

 was dredg-ed by the U. S. Fish Commission stemiicr Albafro--<.s. 



This species is known to us from the t3'^pe described aboA'e, and 

 another small specimen, cotypical, is No. 7121, Ichthy ©logical Collec- 

 tions, Leland Stanford Junior University. 



(TTOiKiXei/dGJv^ in varied garb.) 



4. BOTHROCARA Bean. 

 Bothrocara Beas, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.; 1S90, p. :iS {mollis). 

 Body elongate, compressed, semitranslucent, covered with small 

 scales; small teeth in jaws and on vomer and palatines; mucous pores 

 about head largeh" dev^eloped, no v^entral fins; dorsal and anal joined 

 to caudal. Deep-sea fishes allied to Lt/codes, but lacking ventrals. 

 {/SoSpo^, cavity; Kcxpa, head.) 



4. BOTHROCARA ZESTA Jordan and Fowler, new species. 



Head 5; depth 8|: D. 112; A. }»2; P. 17; eye t>i in head; 2 in snout; 

 1| in interorbital space; 2| in maxillary; snout 3i in head; maxillary 

 2i in head: depth of head Ij its length; pectoral 2 in head; head 1 in 

 trunk; head and trunk li in tail; width at corners of mouth 8 in head. 



Fig. 0.— Bothkocara zesta. 



Body elongate, greatly compressed, and tapering to a point. Head 

 ver}' broad, its breadth If in its length; large muciferous cavities 

 covered with rather strong soft membrane; eye rather small, high, 

 and l)efore the center of the length of the head; maxillar}^ large and 

 reaching to below the posterior part of the eye; teeth in the upper 

 jaw in two series, the outer the larger; teeth in lower jaw in a single 

 series on the sides and in front with several series forming a rather 

 large patch about the symphysis; palatine and vomerine teeth in a 

 single series; tongue rather large, thick, rounded, and free in front; 

 nostrils each in a small tube nearer the tip of the snout than the eye 

 and a tritie nearer each other than the interorbital space; interorbital 

 space rather convex; snout produced, rounded; lips fleshy; upper jaw 

 produced beyond the lower. Gill-opening large, the gill-membrane 

 rather narrowl}- joined to the isthnuis; pseudobranchia? a few small 



