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tbe third shorter than the diameter of orbit; pectorals four times as 
long as the opercle. Scales large and thin; lateral line much broken 
posteriorly. Head 4^; depth 5. D. 9 or 10, 50; A. 56; Lat. 1. 90. 
{Goode and Bean.) Coast of Massachnsetts, in deep water. 
(Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 1878, 256.) 
438.— IIALOPORPIIYRIJS Giiuther. 
{Lepidion Swainson ; preoccupied a.s iejddia.) 
(Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 358, 1862; type Gadm lepidion Risso.) 
Body elongate, compressed, tapering into a slender tail. Scales very 
small. Head entirely scaly, even to the gill-membranes. Snout de- 
l)ressed, thin and flat, projecting beyond the month; month rather large ; 
chill with a barbel; jaws with bauds of villiform teeth; a small round- 
ish patch of teeth on vomer, none on palatines. Dorsal fins two ; the 
flrst short, its anterior ray produced into a long fllament; anal tin 
deeply notched, almost separated into two fins; ventral tins with six 
rays, one of them fllameutoiis ; caudal truncate. Branchiostegals 7. 
Deep-water Ashes. sea; -op<popo^, jnirple, from the deep colora- 
tion.) 
1233. II. viola Goode & Bean. 
Color, deep violet or blue-black ; inside of mouth and opercles blue- 
black; snout broad, pointed at tip, much depressed, forming a roof-like 
projection above mouth ; a conspicuous keel extending backward from 
tip of snout along the suborbital to the posterior margin of the eye. 
Mouth U-shaped, wholly inferior; maxillary nearly reaching posterior 
margin of orbit; interorbital space flat, as wide as the large eye, the 
orbital ridges somewhat elevated; barbel about one-half diameter of 
orbit. First dorsal with its first ray much produced, longer than head ; 
anal fin deeply notched near its middle. Caudal peduncle as long as 
eye; its depth more than half its length; longest ray of ventrals reach- 
ing about half way to vent; pectoral in head. Head 47^; depth 5. 
D. 4-53; A. 40; V. 0; Lat. 1. 115. Banks of Newfoundland and south- 
ward, in deep water.. 
{Haloporphyrus viola Goode and Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 256, 1878.) 
439.-PIIYSICUI.IIS Kaup. 
(Kaup, Wiegmanu’.s Arcliiv. 1558, 88: type Physicnlus dalwigkii Kaup.) 
Body elongate, covered with small scales; head entirely scaly ; snout 
broad, obtusely rounded, projecting beyond the mouth; mouth of mod- 
