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supracaudal very slightly shorter than siibcaudal, equally high and 

 subcaudal begins near last sixth of second dorsal, without distinct 

 anal; caudal moderate filament; pectoral reaches hind ventral angle, 

 about 6% in total, width 1% its length; ventral II/2 in head, obtuse; 

 front ventral claspers retractile into shallow crescentic glandular 

 pouches; large posterior claspers bifid, 3 times anterior claspers and 

 about equal ventral fin, inner split along about half its length and 

 both claspers almost wholly with short spines directed backwards. 



Ground color cream, marbled with purplish brown. Double line 

 of bluish white spots above eye from nape to base of snout. Light 

 buff blotches and spots, various, at short intervals along margin of 

 back. Lateral line dull white. Eye silver-white and blue-black. 

 Horny cap on top of head cream color, streaked with brown. First 

 dorsal spine white, base streaked with brown, rays and membranes 

 blackish brown with broad mesial white band. Second dorsal with 

 small dark patch on front rays, thence broadly margined black, 

 bases of rays much lighter. Caudal rays uniform blackish brown, 

 filament white. Paired fins brownish gray. Length, 773 nun., 

 filament 210 mm. (Griflfin.) 



New Zealand. 



Subgenus Bathyalopex Collett 



CHIMAERA MITSUKURII Dean 



Chimaera mitsulcuru Dean, Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, vol. 19, art. 3, p. 6, pi. 1, 

 figs. 1-2, 1904 (type locality: Misaki, Sagami). — Jordan and Sntdee, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 234, fig. 2, 1904 (Sagami Bay).— Gasman, Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, p. 87, 1911 (Sagami Bay). — Izuka and Matsuxjea, 

 Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 186, 1920 (Misaki). 



Phasmichtliys mitsukurii Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, 

 p. 119, 1925 (Misaki). 



Chimaera phantasnia (not Jordan and Snyder) Jordan and Fowtek, Proc. U. S, 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 669, 1903 (Sagami Bay). 



Depth 9% in total length ; head SYq. Snout 2l^ in head, obtusely 

 convex ; eye 314? 1% in snout ; mouth below front of eye ; upper front 

 dental plate with about 8 tritors, hind plate with 3 well-marked on 

 inner face and most lateral narrowest; lower dental plate with a 

 single tritor projecting sharply from its inner surface, narrow; 

 interorbital low. 



Lateral line somewhat irregular, not waved; jugular section meets 

 angular short space below junction of orbital and angular. 



Dorsal spine long as head, inserted over hind edge of gill opening, 

 front and hind edges serrated, connected with second dorsal by low 

 fold; second dorsal length £■% in total, upper edge slightly concave 

 little before middle; subcaudal little deeper than supracaudal, ap- 

 parently twice as long as supracaudal with its origin opposite middle 



