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and tongue; maxillary 5.50; nostrils small, in front of rostrum, 

 anterior with a low rim or tube; interorbital 6.71, not as wide as 

 horizontal diameter of eye, flattened, a slight ridge over each eye; 

 rostrum slightly arched, scarcely projecting beyond anterior margin 

 of eye; tentacular cavity small, its width scarcely more than half 

 diameter of eye, illicium with lower lobes united, upper lobe narrow, 

 bifurcate; rostral spine obsolete; lateral spines at angle of disk 

 small, armed with small spinules; tubercles on sides of disk and on 

 body of moderate size, platelike, those on dorsal and ventral surface 

 of disk small, like shagreen; lateral row of plates on disk armed with 

 small spinules; gills two, as in Alalthopsis. 



Dorsal represented by three small rays, its origin considerably 

 nearer tip of caudal than tip of snout; caudal 2.54, well developed; 

 anal small, its base entirely behind base of dorsal; ventrals 3.30, 

 moderate; pectorals 2.27, short. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color light olive brown, crossed by 

 narrow light-colored reticulating lines, bars, and spots; ventral 

 surface and fins cream buff. 



Color in life: Pale olive with a reddish wash, reticulating lines 

 white. 



Type.—€&t. No. 70271, U.S.N.M., 7.8 cm. in length, taken with a 

 beam trawl at station 5118 (lat. 13° 48' 45" N.; long. 120° 41' 51" 

 E.), off Sombrero Island, southern Luzon, at a depth of 159 fathoms, 

 on a bottom of dark green mud. 



This species is easily distinguished from H. ruber (pi. 20, fig. 3; 

 pi. 21, fig. 3) by the broader, more bluntly rounded and depressed 

 disk (in individuals of the same length the disk in H. ruber is onl}^ 

 about three-fourths as wide as in this species). The dorsal consists 

 of two or three small, slender rays. In our examples of H. ruber no 

 rays are visible on the surface. Brauer,^ however, records specimens 

 having tw^o or three small dorsal rays. 



There are five examples in the collection 5.4 to 7.8 cm. in length 

 from depths of 159 to 200 fathoms. 



HALIEUTOPSIS VERMICULARIS Smith and Radclifie, new species. 

 Plate 20, fig. 1; plate 21, fig. 1. 



Dorsal 5; caudal 9; anal 4; ventral 5; pectoral 15. 



Head broad, depressed, subcircular, length measured to anterior 

 margin of gill-opening 1.73, breadth 1.56, depth 2.92 in its length; 

 body short, slender, tapering, its length exclusive of caudal 2.38; 

 eye 6.30, small; snout 6.10; mouth moderate, jaws subequal; narrow 

 bands of villiform teeth on jaws, palate and tongue edentulous; 

 maxillary 4.30; nostrils moderate, lying in a depression on lower 



' Brauer, Die Tiefsco-Fische, 1906, p. 327. 

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