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convex, the flattened area forming a slight concavity in dorsal con- 

 tour line; snout 3.52, rather blunt, projecting slightly beyond anterior 

 margin of mouth; mouth large, gape barely reaching anterior margin 

 of eye; barbel stout, five-ninths as long as eye; maxillary 2.97, nearly 

 reaching vertical from middle of eye; teeth small, cardiform, incurved, 

 subequal; scales heavy, regular in their arrangement, 8 in a series 

 from second dorsal spine to and including lateral line, 6 from last 

 dorsal ray; exposed portion of each scale armed with a mass of 

 densely packed recuxnbent spinules, more or less regularly arranged 

 in V-shaped rows, their apices pointing forward and lying in the 

 median horizontal line of scale; spinules somewhat flattened, some of 

 them, especially those near outer edge of scales, lanceolate, strength- 

 ened by a longitudinal keel, similar to that described for M. nasutus 

 (Giinther) ; spinules on scales of head not as erect as commonly found 

 in Macrourus; head scaled. 



Tip of snout to origin of dorsal 3.82 in total length; first dorsal spine 

 small; second long, slender, 1.46 in head, armed with smaU spinules; 

 interdorsal space 1.38 in eye; anterior rays of second dorsal rudi- 

 mentary, posterior rays becoming well developed; origin of anal under 

 base of fifth rudimentary dorsal ray; origin of ventral in vertical to 

 first dorsal spine, slightly behind base of pectoral; outer ventral ray 

 long, filamentous, 1.46 in head, reaching to base of sixth anal ray; 

 pectoral 1.70. 



Color in alcohol: Hair-brown, fins blackish. 



Type.— Cat. No. 72934, U.S.N.M., 42.5 cm. in length, taken with a 

 beam trawl at station 5511 (lat. 8° 15' 20'' N.; long. 123° 57' 00" 

 E.), Iligan Bay, Mindanao, at a depth of 410 fathoms, on a bottom of 

 gray mud and fine sand. 



This species resembles M. nasutus (Giinther) ; it has a longer head 

 and snout, smaller eye, 8 ventral rays instead of 10, a much shorter 

 interdorsal space, and outer ventral ray reaching beyond base of 

 anal. 



M. wood-masoni Alcock, which resembles this species, has a slightly 

 larger eye and shorter snout, fewer scales between last ray of dorsal 

 fin and lateral line, a longer interdorsal space, and shorter outer 

 ventral ray. 



MACROURUS ASPRELLUS Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 26, fig. 1. 



Dorsal ii,9-71 ; anal 70; ventrals 8 ( ?); pectorals 20. 



Head 4.60 in total length (tail mutflated), its dorsal surface broad 

 and flat, subrectangular in transverse section, its breadth 2.04 in its 

 length, less than its depth at middle of eye; bones not very finn, 

 suborbital ridge less distinct than in M. diibius, terminal tubercles on 

 snout less prominent; body compressed, greatest depth at origin of 



