FAMILY BROTULIDAE — SCHULTZ 387 



developed raker at angle +2 developed rakers next to angle on lower 

 arch, followed by about 8 platelets; the scales, difficult to count 

 accurately, appear to number about 100 to 106 vertical rows from head 

 to caudal fin base and about 23 from anal origin to base of dorsal fin. 



Precision measurements were m^ade on the holotype and paratypes 

 and these data, expressed in thousandths of the standard length, are 

 recorded, respectively: Standard lengths 53.8, 54, 55, 60.5; length of 

 head 257, 255, 251, and 254; greatest depth 197, 207, 200, and 199; 

 least depth 28, 30, 27, and 25; snout 61, 61, 56, and 58; eye 57, 56, 55, 

 and 53; tip of snout to rear edge of maxillary 145, 141, 131, 131; 

 postorbital length of head 162, 168, 156, and 159; fleshy interorbital 

 space 50, 54, 47, 50; snout tip to dorsal origin 316, 311, 315, and 305; 

 length of pelvic fin 221, 206, 211, and 257; length of base of dorsal 728, 

 713, 705, and 685; length of anal base 515, 502, 488, and 486; length 

 of pectoral fin 177, 165, 173, and 166; length of caudal fin 139, 144, 

 — , and 133; longest dorsal fin ray 123, 126, 109, and 116; longest anal 

 fin ray 123, 126, 109, and 116. 



Head rounded, body compressed posteriorly; a vertical line tlu-ough 

 dorsal origin passes less than an eye diameter behind base of pectoral ; 

 anal origin a little closer to tip of snout than base of caudal fin; dorsal 

 and anal composed of soft rays only, the longest rays posteriorly; 

 caudal fin separate, not connected with dorsal or anal fins, middle 

 rays longest; pectoral fins rounded; least depth of body a little less 

 than twice in fleshy interorbital space; scales, thin, cycloid, imbricate 

 on body, but absent on head; scales on base of pectoral, but absent on 

 all other fins; maxillary concealed by a fleshy fold of the cheek, only 

 upper lip of prem^axiLlary exposed when mouth is closed; eye moder- 

 ately large for a Brosmophycine fish, without free margin; anterior 

 and posterior nostrils widely separated, the anterior one at front of 

 side of snout with raised rim, posterior opening larger, just in front of 

 eye, without distinct raised rim; tip of snout with fleshy fold bearing 

 the usual pores and dermal lapetts, separate from upper lip; tip of 

 chin with the usual 2 pahs of pores; a villiform band of teeth on 

 premaxillary and palatines, on vomer the band is broadly A-shaped; 

 teeth of lower jaw short, conical, in a single row posteriorly, anteriorly 

 these are bordered externally by a narrow band of villiform teeth ; all 

 specimens are females and those opened had enlarged eggs; on each 

 side of pylorus is a short, bluntly rounded pyloric caecum; lateral line 

 obsolete; maxillary reaches a short distance behind a vertical line 

 through rear of eye; interorbital space convex; lower jaw included; 

 pelvic fins inserted on isthmus notablj^ in front of pectoral base, not 

 quite reaching to anus; gill membranes extending forward, free from 

 isthmus. 



