[SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE PHILIPPINE CRUISE OF THE FISHERIES STEAMER 

 "ALBATROSS." 1907-1910.— NO. 18.] 



THE CHBL^ROID FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 

 WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



By Hugh M, Smith/ 



United States Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries and Director of the 

 Albatross Philippine Expedition. 



No chimaeroid fishes have up to this time been recorded from the 

 Philippine Islands. The Albatross collection contains six specimens 

 of the genus Chimaera representing two species, together with a 

 remarkable egg capsule of a Rhinochimsera from the coast of Celebes, 



CHIMERA PHANTASMA Jordan and Snyder. 



This species, described from Japan by Jordan and Snyder in 1900, 

 is represented in the Albatross collection by five specimens, as follows: 



(1) Female, 46.75 cm. long, taken with a beam trawl on July 24, 

 1908, at station 5296 Gat. 13° 40' 09" N.; long. 120° 57' 45" E.), in 

 Verde Island Passage off Matocot Point, southern Luzon, at a depth 

 of 210 fathoms; (2) female, 22 cm. long to end of base of second 

 dorsal (.plus 18 cm. for caudal fins and filament), taken with a beam 

 trawl on July 24, 1908, at station 5297, in the same locahty, at a 

 depth of 198 fathoms; (3) male, 20.5 cm. long to end of base of second 

 dorsal (plus 18 cm. for caudal fins and filament), taken \vith a beam 

 trawl on August 9, 1909, at station 5516 Gat. 8° 46' N.; long. 123° 

 32' 30" E.), off Point Tagolo Light, northern Mindanao, at a depth of 

 175 fathoms; (4) male, 18.5 cm. long to end of base of second dorsal 

 (caudal filament missing), taken with a beam trawl on July 24, 1908, 

 at station 528Q Gat. 13° 41' 50" N.; long. 120° 58' 30" E.), in Verde 

 Island Passage off Matocot Point, southern Luzon, at a depth of 172 

 fathoms; (5) male, 11.5 cm. long to end of base of second dorsal 

 (plus 11.2 cm. for caudal fins and filament), taken vnth. a beam trawl 

 on July 24, 1008, at station 5298 Gat. 13° 43' 25" N.; long. 120° 57' 

 40" E.), in Verde Island Passage off Matocot Point, southern Luzon, 

 at a depth of 140 fathoms. The younger specimens differ from the 

 older in having the longitudinal stripe more distinct, and the body 

 and fins less piijmented. 



1 la the study of this collection the writer has had the assistance of Mr. Lewis RadcliAe, who assumes 

 joint authority for the new species described. 



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