FISHES OF THE PHILIPPHsTE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 495 



Depth 6% in total; head 6I/2, width 2. Snout 1% in head, ob- 

 tusely convex; eye 4l^, 2i/4 in snout; mouth before eye; front lower 

 dental plates with 5 to 7 enamel rods, front plates of lower jaw 

 notched at symphysis; interorbital little narrower than eye, convex. 



Lateral line very slightly undulous, though not evenly waved. 



First dorsal inserted nearly eye diameter behind head, spine 1^4 in 

 head, slender, entire, continuous with second dorsal by low fold; 

 second dorsal length ^Yg in total length, uniformly high; upper 

 and lower caudals alike, latter longer or begins well before hind end 

 of second dorsal; pectoral 5 in total, I14 to ventral, width 1% its 

 length; ventral 1% in head. 



Uniform deep purplish black, as dark on bellj^ as on back. 

 Length, 1,285 mm. (Jordan and Hubbs). 



Japan. Said to differ from Chimaera purpwrescens in the much 

 higher first dorsal and shorter pectoral. 



CHIMAERA AFFINIS Capello 



Chimaera afflnis Capello, Jorn. Sci. Mat. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, vol. 1, p. 314, 

 pi. 3, figs. 1, 1868 (type locality: Setubal, Portugal ).^Gunthek, Cat, 

 Fishes British Mxis., vol. 8, p. 350, 1870 (copied). — Goode and Bean, Oceau- 

 ic ichthyology, pp. 31, 509, pi. 10, figs. 32^35, 1895 (off Georges Banks).— 

 Jordan and Evermann, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, pt. 1, 95, 1896 (com- 

 piled). — Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, p. 91, 1911 (North 

 Atlantic from 300-900 fathoms). 



Chimaera plumbea Gnx. Bull. Philos. Soc. Washington, vol. 2, p. 182, 1877. 

 (type locality : "Southeast of La Have bank, in lat. 42°40' N., long. 63°23' W., 

 at a depth of 350" fathoms" ) . 



Chimaera aibreviata Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 6, p. 254, 1883 (type 

 locality: Lat. 40°16'15" N., long. QQ°5S' W., in 1,290 fathoms). 



Depth 5% ill length to end of upper caudal lobe; head 5l^. 

 Snout 2 in head, acutely produced ; eye about 7, 3l^ in snout ; cephal- 

 ic appendage with 5 spines on inner surface; mouth below front of 

 eye ; interorbital moderately high. 



Lateral line with few feeble undulations anteriorly, jugular branch 

 meets postorbital near junction of latter and suborbital and angular 

 branches. 



First dorsal 1% in head, spine with front edge rounded, fin con- 

 tinuous with second dorsal by low fold; second dorsal little more 

 than half total length to hind end of upper caudal lobe, uniformly 

 low and without emargination, its upper edge straight; upper cau- 

 dal and subcaudal similarly high as second dorsal, origin of latter 

 about opposite last fifth of second dorsal; pectoral 414 in length to 

 hind edge of upper caudal lobe, not quite reaching ventral origin, 

 width half its length; ventral 1% in head; clasper of male trifid at 

 terminal third its length. 



Uniformly plumbeous. Length, 1,246 mm. (Goode and Bean.) 



North Atlantic, in 300-963 fathoms. 



