NO. 1907. NEW CYCLOOASTERin FISUESi—CILBERT AND BURKE. 363 



(shorter in cotypes). Disk small, broadly triangular in the adult, 

 this scarcely evident in the voiuiger cotypes; vent close beliiud 

 disk. (Fig. 3.) 



Multifld priclvles scattered thickly over head and ])ody. 



.Color in life, light yellowdsh pink or salmon color, nearly white 

 on belly and under side of head; peritoneum silvery. 



This species is not closely related to the other species of the genus; 

 it is readily distinguished ])y the short heavy head and body and the 

 coloration. 



Two cotypes from station 5021, off Cape Patience, Sagalin, depth 

 73 fathoms. 



12. CAREPROCTUS ACANTHODES, new species. 

 Plate 43, fig. 3. 



Type.— Qui. No. 73332, U.S.N.M. A female, 89 mm. long, from 

 station 4997, in the Gulf of Tartary; depth 318 fathoms. 



Measurements in hundredths of length mtliout caudal (81 mm.): 

 Length of head 29.5; gi*eatest wddtli of head at cheeks 17; interocular 

 wddtli at angles of mouth 15.5; dis- 

 tance from tip of snout to front of AW\\\lr, 



orbit 12.5; diameter of eye 8; dis- 

 tance from tip of snout to end of 

 maxillary 12.5; length of gill slit 5.8; 

 greatest depth of body 27; distance ^ 

 from tip of snout to front of disk 

 12.8; to anus 17; to front of anal fin 

 35; to front of dorsal 28; diameter of 

 disk 5; distance from disk to anus 

 1.3; longest pectoral ray of upper fig. 4.— relative size and position op 

 lobe 21.5; of lower lobe 12.8; short- ^'^^'^ ^^° ""'^"^ ""^ caeepeoctus acan- 



, ' ' thodes. 



est ray in notch 5.5. 



Dorsal 53; anal4G; pectoral 33; pyloric ca^ca 19. 



Body moderately deep, compressed, much more elongate than in 

 C. rastrinus. Head very wide, blunt and heavy, cheeks vertical, 

 interorbital broad and flat. Snout short, wide, and deep, scarcely 

 protruding; jaws equal; nostril in a short broad tube in front of lower 

 Q.(\gQ> of pupil; eye moderate, the lower half sUvery. Mouth broad; 

 maxillary reaching vertical from j^osterior margin of pupil. Teeth 

 short, simple, arranged in 10 or 11 oblique rows in the half of each 

 jaw. Gill slit extending down in front of upper pectoral ray, or in 

 some cases confuied to area above base of fin, this variation apparently 

 due to looseness of the integument. 



Origin of dorsal above tip of gill flap; anterior dorsal rays buried 

 in a gelatinous tissue. Caudal truncate, joined to anal for nearly 

 half its length; no dorsal or anal notch. Pectoral notched, the ujiper 

 lobe reaching past front of anal; lower lobe of six rays, short, reaching 



