812 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
1252. ITI. carmiiiafiis Goode. 
Silver- gray. Body stouter than in M. hairdi, the tail less attenuate. 
Scales heavy, covered vith long spines arranged in nine or ten rows, 
like wool-cards (carmen), those of the middle row similar to the others. 
Eye as deep as width of interorbital space, 5 in head. Snout long, 
sharp, depressed, triangular, 3 in head, its lateral ridges well devel- 
oped, running in a straight line under the eyes; a strong horizontal 
ridge from supraorbital to gill-openings parallel with subocular ridges; 
barbel very short. Long ray of dorsal unarmed; anal rather high, its 
longest rays equal to half width of interorbital space; pectoral not 
reaching anal ; ventral behind pectoral, its filament not reaching anal. 
Head 5; depth 8. D. 10-80 + ; A. 76 -j-; P. 13; V. 7; scales ca. 5-100- 
12. Gulf Stream, otf the coast of Rhode Island. (Goode.) 
(Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 346.) 
aa. Suborbital region without conspicuous bony ridge. 
1253. Itl. bairdi Goode & Bean. 
Brownish gray, bluish below; membrane of first dorsal and under 
surface of snout pink; throat and branchiostegals deep violet; front 
of dorsal and anal blackish. Snout sharp, quadrate, shorter than eye, 
with 4 radiating ridges; bony ridge of preorbital and suborbital obso- 
lete, this region unarmed and soft to the touch; mouth less distinctly 
inferior than in other species. Scales keeled; first long ray of first 
dorsal strongly serrate anteriorly; vent under middle of first dorsal. 
Head CJ; depth 8. D. 12-137; A. 120; scales 6-152-20. Deep water, 
otf the coast of Xew England. This species approaches Coryphaenoides, 
and renders the distinction of the genus Macrurus doubtful. 
(Goode & Bean, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, xiv, 471, 1877.) 
448.— CORYPII.EIVOflDES Gunner. 
(Gunner, Trondbj. Selsk. Skrift. iii, 50, 1765: type Coryphcenoides rupestris Gunner.) 
Snout short, obtuse, high, obliquely truncated, soft to the touch, 
except its bony center; cleft of the mouth lateral; head without prom- 
inent ridges, the membrane bones of the side of the head soft and 
papery; teeth in the outer series of upper jaw somewhat enlarged. 
Scales smooth or spinous. Lower jaw with a barbel. (/.opuipaO^a, Cory- 
plicena; lidoc, resemblance.) 
1254. C. rupestris Gunner. 
Bones of front and sides of head thin and papery; no bony ridges 
on sides of head; angle of preopercle with a conspicuous four-angled 
