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Depth 5% to 6% in total length; head 4% to 6I/3. Snout 2 in head, 

 obtusely convex; eye 3 to 3%, 1% to 2 in snout; mouth before eye; 

 vomerine teeth with 6 to 7 rods; interorbital 3% in head, rather low. 



Lateral line straight on body, jugular section meets postorbital 

 near junction with suborbital and angular. 



Dorsal spine 1 to 1^ in head, interdorsal equals first dorsal base 

 and continuous by low fold ; second dorsal length 2% to 2ys in total 

 length, upper edge medially emarginate nearlj^ % anterior height 

 and posterior height little lower ; upper and lower caudals lower than 

 second dorsal, lower begins only very slightly before end of second 

 dorsal, fin ending in slender attenuated point but usually not a fila- 

 ment ; pectoral nearly 4 in total, width 3 in length ; ventral 6, rounded ; 

 male with claspers short, not reaching ventral ends, bifid about half 

 their length, trifid cartilages with 2 or 3 confluent by skin terminally. 



Brown or gray-brown, shading whitish below. Back and sides 

 with many variable irregular whitish spots. 



North east Pacific from California to Alaska. 



Garman describes Chimaera media on a male and female without 

 locality, differing chiefly from the present species in the second dorsal 

 fin divided. His specimens are 510 and 560 mm. long. Possibly they 

 are only variants of Chimaera colliei. 



1 example. A. N. S. P. Alaska. George Davidson. 



1 example. A. N. vS. P. California ? W. N. Lockington. 



4 examples. A. N. S. P. Pacific Grove, Calif. Harold Heath. 



CHIMAERA NOVAE ZEALANDIAE Fowler 



Chimaera novae sealandiae Fowleb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1910, 

 p. 603 (on Hector). — Grifiin, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 54, p. 246, 

 pi. 20, fig. 2, 1923 (9 miles north of Kaipara Heads). 



Chimaera monstrosa var. australis (not Shaw) Hector, Trans. New Zealand 

 Inst., vol. 34, p. 239, pi. 14, fig. C, 1902 (type locality: New Zealand). 



Chimaera australis Waite, Rec. Cautei'bury Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, p. 9, 1907 (ref- 

 erence). — Gasman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, p. 88, 1911 (compiled). 



Depth Sy2 in total ; head 7i/4, upper profile of male convex before 

 eye. Snout 1% iii head, obtusely conic; eye 314, 1% in snout; mouth 

 before eye; tritors on dental plates rodlike; interorbital l^^ wide as 

 eye. Convex. Lower gill rakers 9. 



Lateral line first concave, then convex above pectoral, then along 

 side slightly above middle by series of very short waves until below 

 hind edge of second dorsal, when bending to lower edge of caudal 

 axis; jugular branch meets orbital near junction of latter with 

 angular and suborbital. 



Dorsal spine II/2 in head, keeled on front edge and serrated behind ; 

 first dorsal ray 1%, connected with second dorsal by low fold; 

 second dorsal length 3% in total length, upper edge slightly concave 

 medially with front portion of fin slightly higher than posterior; 



