NO. 2149. JAPANESE MACROVROID FISHES— GILBERT AND HVBBS. 205 



One young specimen!, in poor condition, 20 mm. long to anus, was 

 dredged with the type. 



TaUe of measurements in hnndredtlis of length to amis. 



1 A pseudocaudal developed. 

 29. TEACHGNLTRUS VILLOSUS (Gunther). 



Coryphaenoides villosus Gunthee, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 20, 



1877, p. 441. 

 Macrurus villosus Gunthee, Challenger Reports, vol. 22, Deep-Sea Fishes, 



1887, p. 142, pi. 36, fig. B.— Beauee, die Tiefsee-Fische, 1906, p. 268. 



This species was frequently dredged in Japan, but only four speci- 

 mens are preserved, the loss of specimens being largely due to the soft 

 character of the flesh. 



Description of a fine specimen 455 mm. long (a small pseudocaudal 

 developed), dredged in 505 fathoms, off the east coast of Hondo, at 

 Albatross station 5080. 



Body sharply compressed, tapering to a longer and slenderer tail 

 than usual, which is narrowly oblong in cross-section, its width near 

 middle 3.6 in its depth ; width of body over the pectoral bases 1.8 in 

 the greatest depth, which is contained 1.2 times in the head. Ventral 

 contour gently curved; base of fii'st dorsal not greatl}^ elevated an- 

 teriorly ; interorbital flat, wide, and widening rather rapidly poster- 

 iorly, its least width 3 in head; snout subconic, bluntly pointed, as 

 long as orbit, its blunt lateral angles near vertical from front of pre- 

 maxillaries; mouth large, the maxillaries extending to below pos- 

 terior border of pupil, equal to width of interorbital, larger in the 



