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10. CAREPROCTUS CYPSELURUS (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Prognurus cypselurus Jordan and Gilbert, Fishes of Bering Sea. Report Fiir- 

 Seal Investigations, Part 3, 1899, p. 478, pi. 77 (Bering Sea). 



One specimen 260 mm. in length from station 5015, in the southern 

 part of the Okhotsk Sea, at a depth of 510 fathoms. 



Color in life: Greater part of head, body, and fins deep purplish 

 indigo, the anterior part of the sides almost clear red, with little blue; 

 head again becoming deeper blue, but with more red than the pos- 

 terior part of the trunk; basal portion of upper pectoral rays also 

 with more reddish. 



U. CAREPROCTUS RASTRINUS, new species. 

 Plate 43, fig. 2. 



Type.— Cat. No. 73331, U.S.N.M. A female, length 285 mm. long, 

 from station 5026, in the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea, depth 

 119 fathoms. 



Measurements in hundredths of length without caudal (259 mm.) : 

 Length of head 27.5; greatest width of head 17.5; interocular width 



16; wadth at angles of mouth 15; 

 \^\\v\\\\llll!', distance from tip of snout to front 



^A\Ml'l||r~~^ of orbit 11; diameter of eye 5.5; 

 distance from tip of snout to end 

 of maxillary 14; length of gill slit 

 8 ; greatest depth of body 42 ; dis- 

 tance from tip of snout to front of 

 disk 14; to anus 17.2; to front of 

 anal fin 38; to front of dorsal 29.5; 



Fig. 3.— Relative size and position of vent t , c t i n r t ± p 



AND DISK OF CAREPROCTUS RASTRINUS. diametcr of disfc 2.5 ; distance from 



disk to anus 2 ; longest pectoral ray 

 of upper lobe 15; of lower lobe 29; shortest ray 8. 



Dorsal 59; anal 52; pectoral 37; caudal 8; p3doric cseca 34. 



Body heavy and deep anteriorly, compressed, tapering rapidly 

 to caudal. Head short, with short blunt snout; profile evenly 

 rounded, the anterior profile of snout vertical; interorbital \\dde, 

 nearly thrice eye; cheeks vertical; jaws equal; nostril in a short \\dde 

 tube on lower line of eye. Mouth wide; maxillary reaching vertical 

 from slightly behind eye. Teeth stout, blunt, simple, arranged in 

 about 11 oblique rows in the half of each jaw. Gill slit extending 

 down in front of four or five pectoral rays. 



Origin of dorsal far forward, a little in front of gill slit. Caudal 

 broad, slightly rounded, joined to anal a little more tlian half its 

 length; no dorsal or anal notch. Pectoral deeply notched; the upper 

 lobe reaching past fTont of anal ; the lower lobe of eight greatly exserted 

 rays, the longest reaching front of anal and nearly as long as head 



