FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 501 



CHIMAERA MIRABILIS CoUett 



Chimaera (Bathyalopex) ntirabilis Collett, Forb. Vid. Selskr. Christiania, No. 

 9, p, 5, 1904 (type locality: Faroe Bank in 750-1,200 meters) ; Rep. Nor- 

 wegian Fisli. Marine Investigation, vol. 2, p. 35, pi. 1, fig. 4, 1905 (Faroe 

 Channel; Faroe Bank). 



Chimaera mivahilis Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, No. 3, p. 89, 1911 

 (Faroe Channel, 750-1,200 meters). 



Depth 9^8 in total length; head 8%- Snout 2 in head, obtusely 

 convex ; eye 2, equals snout ; interorbital low, forehead obtusely con- 

 vex over front of eye. 



Lateral line bends in short upper loop close behind junction with 

 ocular and orbital branches; jugular branch meets angular below 

 eye and short space below junction of angular with orbital and sub- 

 orbital branches; on body lateral line straight. 



Dorsal spine long as dorsal base or li/^ in head, reaches second 

 dorsal origin and continuous with second dorsal by low fold; sec- 

 ond dorsal length 3% in total length, little higher anteriorly than 

 posteriorly and depressed medially; supracaudal 1% subcaudal 

 length, which begins little before last third in second dorsal base 

 and without anal division; caudal ends in long filament about eye 

 diameter longer than rest of body; pectoral 6% in total, reaches 

 little beyond ventral base, width 1^^ its length ; ventral 1% in head, 

 convex behind. 



Gray brown, fins darker. Length, 450 mm. (Collett.) 



Faroe Bank. 



CHIMAERA OGILBYI Walte 



Chimaera oglihyi Waite, Prelim. Rep. Thetis, p. 41, pi. 11, 1898 (type locality: 

 New South Wales) ; Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, p. 48, pi. 6, 1899 (off 

 Port Hacking, New South Wales). — Tanaka, Journ. College Sei. Tokyo, vol. 

 23, art. 7, p. 10, 1908 (Suruga Bay; Kagoshima). — Stead, Fishes of Aus- 

 tralia, p. 233, 1908.— McCuiiocH, Zool. Res. Endeavour, vol. 1, p. 5, 1911 

 (Bass Strait). — Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, No. 3, p. 90, 

 1911 (compiled). — IMcCtjixoch, Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 13, 

 pi. 2, fig. 44a, 1927. 



Depth 6% in total length ; head S^/^. Snout 1% in head, obtusely 

 conic; eye 5, 3% in snout; mouth before eye; front upper dental 

 plates with sinuous margin and each formed of 6 to 8 enamel rods, 

 palatine pair with outer edges roughly denticular and flat surfaces 

 each with 3 tubercles white and enamel-like; lower dental plates 

 with margin incised by 3 deep clefts, 1 median and 2 lateral, form- 

 ing 4 rounded prominences and long white enamel elevation back- 

 ward from behind each of outer or posterior cusps; interorbital low. 



Lateral line with even short waves over greater portion anteriorly 

 on body; jugular section meets orbital section close to junction of 

 orbital with angular and suborbital sections. 



