110 PBOCEEDIXGS OF THE XATIOyAL MUSEUM. tol. 43. 



dobranchiae discernible: scales large, 3 ro\s» from last dorsal ray to 

 and including lateral line, exposed portion of each sc^le armed with 

 small slightly prtxumbent spinules, these quite regular in their 

 airangement; region below and behind pectoral base naked, belly 

 scaled; a triangular area, with well-marked stria, its apex below base 

 of pectorals, extending down to and including base of ventrals. 



Tip of snout to origin of dorsal 5.15 in total length: first dorsal 

 spine minute, second 1.20 in head, longer than adjacent soft rays; 

 interdorsal space 7.61 in total length: second dorsal low: tip of tail 

 broken, pp^-vided with five rays; tip of snout to origin of anal 3.50; 

 tip of snout to origin of ventrals 5J^2, the outer Tentral rays greatly 

 produced, the longest 3.57 in total length: pectoral 1.55 in head. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color, brownish buff, minutely dotted 

 with darker brown: an indistinct silvery band along middle of side; 

 sn« ' jt . inside t'f mouth, angle of mouth, and a narrow line along man- 

 dible whitish: cheek and pre<:»percle silveiy; opercle posteriorly 

 blackish, maigin lighter: front maigin of first dorsal blackish"; sec- 

 ond dorsal and anal whitish, each ray with a distinct black dot at 

 base: distal b^lf of ventral rays, with the exception of the two inner 

 ravs, black, rest of fin whitish, base black: pectorals white, black 

 dots on upper axil; region around vent blackish, area in front of this 

 silvery. 



Type. — Cat. Xo. 72926, U.S.X3L, 17.5 cm. in length, taken with 

 a b4m trawl at station 5421 (lat. 10° 33' 30" X,; long. 122° 26' 0«j' 

 E.), between Panay and Guymaras at a depth of 137 fathoms, on a 

 bottom of green mud. 



This si>ecies differs from other described forms not provided with a 

 mandibular barbel in the elongate snout and produced ventral rays. 



HTMEXCXTEPHALUS TORVTS 



Plate 23, fig. 2. 



Doi^al n.S-102; anal 97; ventrals 7: pectorals 14. 



Head 5. SI in total length, closely resembling our examples of E. 

 gtriatisgimu^ Jordan and Gilbert; as in that species the crests are all 

 very thin and papery and the membranes roofing the canals very 

 dehcate and easily ruptured; the middle length of head Hes imme- 

 diately behind jwsterior margin of pupil; bc»dy not strongly arched, 

 depth 7.12 in total length; tail tapering abruptly, slender, elongate: 

 eye 2.75. large, circular, orbital rims greatly expanded; interorbital 

 2.90, much broader than in H. lonmpes; snout 4.23, short, blunt, 

 median ridge not greatly prc»jecting above level of interorbital space : 

 nostrils close to eye as in related species; suborbital broader than in 

 H. Ic/Timpes. breadth at narrowest {X'int about equal to diameter of 

 papQ; mouth moderate, slightly obhque. lower jaw included; max- 

 illaiT 1.S3, barely reaching vertical from posterior margin of eye; 



