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tance beyond distal margin of scale; under side of head naked; lateral 

 line conspicuous, little arched anteriorly. 



Tip of snout to origin of doi*sal 4.45 in total length; first dorsal 

 spine small; second 2.33 in total length, long fdiform, several small, 

 ■widely separated spinules on anterior margin of basal j)ortion; poste- 

 rior niiirgin of free porticm with a narrow membranous frmge; inter- 

 doreal space slightly less than diameter of eye; anterior rays of sec- 

 ond dorsal snudl but distinct; origin of anal under insertion of second 

 dorsid, its rays somewhat longer than those of the dorsal; outer ven- 

 trid ray 1.69 in head, tip filamentous, reaching base of sixth antd ray; 

 pectond 1.73. 



Color in alcohol: Dorsal surface mars-brown, somewhat lighter 

 below lateral line; region below pectonds blackish; head anteriorly 

 whitish-gray; brancliiostegals, membrane separating nasid apertures, 

 ajid lins tinged with dark sejd-brown. 



Type. — Cat. No. 72938, U.S.N.M., 28 cm. in length, taken with a 

 beam trawl at station 5470 (lat. 13° 37' 30" N.; long. 123° 41' 09" 

 E.), in Lagonoy Gulf, Luzon, at a depth of 560 fathoms, on a bottom 

 of mud. 



MACROURUS CAMURUS Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 27, fig. 2. 



First dorsjil ii,9; ventnds 9; pectonds 22. 



Head 5.10 in total length, short, high, compressed, greatest breadth 

 1.81 in its length, upper profile slightly arched; suborbital ridge 

 sharp, tlistmct; boily rather deep, compressed, greatest depth at 

 origin of dorstd 5.66 m totd length; vent inunediately m front of 

 anal; tail slender, compressed, tapering; eye 3.33 m head, large, cir- 

 cular, longer than snout; interorbital broad, flat, 3.28 in head, nearly 

 equal to diameter of eye; snout 3.64 in head, short, broad, rather 

 blunt, Antli a distinct angulation on sides as in species of 2Iatseo- 

 cephalus, but not produced as in species of this genus, almost trun- 

 cate, \vith a distmct median tubercle, median ridge on snout quite 

 distinct in the alcoholic specimen; mouth rather large, anterior; 

 maxillary 2.44; mandibular barbel long, slender, as long as eye; 

 teeth small, villiform, in narrow bands, outer row in upper jaw 

 slightly enlarged; scales small, deciduous, apparently about 15 in a 

 series from origin of dorsal to aiul mcluding latertd line, but tlie scales 

 are lost, and in tliis small Ulth^dduid it is impossible to determine 

 accurately the position of the lateral line; exposed portion of each 

 scale armed yviili about 5 slender, nearly erect spinules. a median row 

 of 3, with a single spinule on each side; under side of head partially 

 scaled. 



First dorsal spine small but distinct, second about 0.5 as long as 

 head, %v'ith 4 widely separated, distinct spiimles; interdorsal space 

 narrow, about 0.66 diameter of eye; rays of second dorsal very small, 



