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604. LABICHTHYS ELONGATUS, Gill A KyUer. 



The riflges that bound the rostral groove not confluent backwards in a 

 carinaform extension, but ending in a vertical from the orbit ; greatest 

 height of body 36 in a total length. Color black. (Gill it Ryder.) Vent 

 not described. Gulf Stream, Albatross Station 2100, 39° 22'' N., 68° 34' W. 

 (elongatus, elongate.) 



Labkhihijs doihjatus, Gill A: Kyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, liG2, Gulf Stream; .Iokuan <Sc 

 Davis, I. c, 05G. (Tyjiu, No. ;i3577. Cull. Alljatros.-i.) 



171. NEMICHTHYS, Eichardson. 



NemicMhys, Richaupson, Voyage Sainarang, 16, 1848, (scolopaceus). 



Leptorhynchiis, Lowe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., x, 1852, 54, (leiichlenbergii), (preoccupied). 



Belonopsis, Beandt, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb., Savaus litrangeres, 174, 1854, {kuchtcuberyii). 



Gill openings separate ; vomerine teeth moderate ; vent at the throat. 

 Body very long and slender, ending in a filamentous tail. Jaws very 

 slender, recurved, not expanded at tip. This genus contains one or two 

 species of long and very slender eels, living in deep water, though per- 

 haps nearer the surface than the members of related genera, (vijfiu, 

 thread ; /.^tfif, fish.) 



a. Eye moderate, less thau half postorbital part of bead ; doptb of liead 7 in its greatest 

 length. scoLOPACEi'S, COS. 



aa. Eye larger, half length of puetorbital part of head ; depth uf head 'J in its length. 



AVOCETTA, GOG. 



605. NEMICHTHYS SCOLOPACEUS, Richardson. 



(Snipe Eel.) 



Head comparatively stout, its depth one-seventh its greatest length. 

 Eye moderate, less than one-third the length of the head without snout. 

 Length of pectoral fins slightly less than height of the anal, which is 

 less than the height of the body and rather more than greatest depth of 

 head. Pale above, belly and anal fin blackish, the color not abruptly 

 changing, the back somewhat speckled. Length 36 inches. Atlantic 

 Ocean, in deep water; very many specimens taken with the beam 

 trawl oft' the New England coast and off the Grand Banks. Common 

 about Madeira. {scoJopax, snipe.) 



Nemichlhys scolopacea, Riciiaedson, Voy. Samarang, 25, 1848, South Atlantic ; Gi''NTiiER,Cat., 

 VIII, 21, 1870; GooDE & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., 26, 1879; Goode, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1880, 485 ; Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. .Zool., 225, 1883 ; Jokdan & Gilueut, Synopsis, 

 366,1883 ; Gunther, Voy. Challenger, xxii, 263, 1887. 



Lepturhynchiis leucJdenhenjii, Lowe, Mem. Soc. Savans fitrangeres, Petersburg, 171, 1854, Madeira. 



Belunopsis leuchtenberyii, Brandt, Mem. Soc. Sav. £tr., Petersb., 174, 1854, (with good plate). 



Nemichthys scolopaceus, Jordan & Davis, 1. c, 657. 



606. NEMICHTHYS AVOCETTA, Jordan A Gilbert. 



Head 10; depth 58; depth of anal 64 in length of body. Head .slen- 

 derer, its depth one-ninth its greatest length. Eye largo, one-third the 

 head, without snout. Length of pectoral scarcely greater than height of 

 anal, which is scarcely less than greatest depth of body, and more than 

 greatest depth of head. Translucent ; belly with close-set dark spots, 

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