NO. 1907. NEW CYCLOOASTERID FISHES— GILBERT AND BURKE. 



367 



Fig. 8.- 



-Relative size and position ok vent and 



DISK OF CAREPROCTUS PELLUCIDUS. 



of posterior margin of e3'^e. Teeth simple, rather stout, and slightly 

 curved backward, in about 10 oblique rows. Gill slit extending 

 down in front of the upper five or six pectoral rays. 



Origin of dorsal far forward, a little in front of gill slit, the anterior 

 rays buried in a pseudotissuo. Caudal truncate, joined to dorsal 

 and anal for two-fifths its length, 

 the posterior hne of union abrupt 

 but without notch. Pectoral 

 deeply notched; the lower lobe 

 long, of eight deeply exserted 

 rays which reach nearly to anal 

 fin. Base of upper pectoral ray 

 in axis of body, which passes just 

 below eye. Disk small, trian- 

 gular, separated from vent by 

 slightly less than its diameter. 

 (Fig. 8.) 



Color pale, skin transparent in life, tinged with light rose; dark 

 brown dots on body and vertical fins; peritoneum pale. 



One cotype from station 5048 and five from station 50-19, off Mat- 

 sushima Buy, east coast of Hondo, in 129 and 182 fathoms. 



16. CAREPROCTUS SEGALIENSIS, new species. 

 Plate 45, fig. 1. 



Type.— Csit. No. 73336, U.S.N.M. 75 mm. in total length, from 

 station 5026, Okhotsk Sea, oflf the southern part of Sagalin Island, 

 m the vicinity of Cape Patience; depth 119 fathoms. 



Measurements in hundredths of 

 total length excluding the caudal 

 fin (69 mm.): Length of head 22.5; 

 greatest width of head 14; inter- 

 ocular width 12; width at angles of 

 mouth 8.5; distance from tip of 

 snout to front of orbit 10; diame- 

 ter of eye 5; length of gill slit 3.8; 

 greatest depth of body 24; distance 

 from tip of snout to front of disk 

 12.5; to anus 18.5; to front of anal 33; to front of dorsal 28; diameter 

 of disk 4.3; longest pectoral ra}^ of upper lobe 18; of lower lobe 9.5; 

 of shortest ray in notch 7. 



Dorsal 58; anal 52; pectoral 25. 



Body deep and compiessed, as in T'. mirahilis. Head compressed, 

 sides nearly vertical; profile descending in an (>\ en curve; snout not 

 split, projecting beyond upper lip for two-thirds cHameter of vyo; 

 nostril in a short tube; eye small. Mouth small and narrow; maxil- 

 lary reacliing vertical from pupil. Teeth in broad bands, slender, 



Fig. 9.— Relative size and position or vent 



AND DISK OF CaREPEOCTUS SEGALIENSIS. 



