910 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
Page 422. After Tricliiurus lepturus* addl 
212 (ft).— BENTHODESilIUS Goode & Bean. 
(Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 379 : type Lepidopus elongaim Clarke.) 
Body naked, much compressed, band-like, tapering gradually back- 
ward from the vent; caudal imduucle very slender, the caudal fin small, 
but well developed; vent much nearer snout than tip of tail. Lateral 
line simple, nearly straight, in a deep, wide furrow. Head compressed ; 
the snout gibbous near its tip; top of head very flat, concave between 
the eyes, without occii)ital crest; lower jaw with a stout cutaneous ap- 
pendage. Three very long, simple, compressed teeth on each premaxil- 
lary in front; outside of these a few minute teeth, and behind them a 
row of large sharp teeth; lower jaw with a single row of rather large, 
pointed teeth, those in middle of the jaw largest. Palatine teeth 
minute. Nostrils horizontal. Dorsal fin nearly uniform, the spines and 
soft rays similar ; anal extremely low, preceded by a scale-like append- 
age. Caudal forked. Ventrals each reduced to a minute, scale-like 
spine, inserted below pectorals. Gill-rakers short, spiny, in one series 
on first and second arch; obsolete on third and fourth. Deep water. 
(/5£v(5«;r, deep ; band.) 
666 (ft). B. eloug^atus (Clarke) G. & B. 
Silvery, with dark traces on head and tail. Length of caudal pedun- 
cle half greatest depth of body, its least depth one- third interorbital 
width, which is 4 in head. Snout 2^ in head ; maxillary not reaching 
front of eye, as long as postorbital part of head. Gill-rakers 13 on first 
arch. Dorsal fin inserted above middle of opercle; pectoral as long 
as maxillary. Head 7^; depth 30. D. 154; A. 100; P. 12; V. I, 1. 
{Goode & Bean.) Deep seas ; known originally from Hokitika, New Zea- 
land; a specimen lately taken from the stomach of a halibut on the 
Grand Banks of Newfoundland. 
{Lepidopus elongatus F. E. Clarke, Trans. New Zealand Inst, xi, 294, H378, pi. xiv: 
Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 379.) 
Page 424. After Scomber pneumatophorus read : 
667 (ft). S. colias Gmeliu. — ^‘Spanish Mackerel” of Europe. 
Our Atlantic and Pacific representatives {grex Mitch. ; diego Ayres) 
of 8. pneumatophorus seem to be identical, but both differ in some 
respects from the European ^‘Spanish Mackerel.” 8. coUas Gmel. 
has the head longer, 3^ to 3f in length (instead of 4); its spinous 
This species is known as “Sabre-fish” and “ Silver 'Eel,” on the coast of Texas. 
