128 BULLETIN 150, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Remarks. — Note from a specimen from Albatross Station 5015, 

 Okhotsk Sea. Depth 4.4; head 4.7. Disk 6.1 in head. Teeth slen- 

 der, a few with weak cups. Pyloric coeca 32, 2.3 in the head. Disk 

 triangular; the flap curled over the center; tip of mandible to disk 3 

 in head. Color purplish black, darker posteriorly; margin of pectoral 

 black; mouth dusky. In life, greater part of head, body, and fins 

 deep purplish indigo, the anterior part of the sides almost clear red, 

 with little blue; head again becoming deeper blue, but with more red 

 than the posterior part of the trunk; basal portion of upper pectoral 

 rays also with more reddish. 



The specimen from Station 4797 has the anterior part of the bod}'" 

 pale and the posterior part black. Ninth and tenth pectoral rays 

 slightly shortened. 



CAREPROCTUS ABBREVIATUS, new species 



Type. — Female, No. 3082, Stanford University Zoological Museum; 

 south of the Alaska Peninsula, Albatross Station 3338; depth 625 

 fathoms. Length 53 mm. 



Figure 49.— C.vreproctus abbeeviatus. Teeth from type 



Distribution. — Known only from type locality. 



RelationsMps. — Careprodus abbreviatus is readily distinguished 

 from all the species with which it might be confused by the small 

 number of fin rays. The type specimen was labeled 0. colletti and 

 resembles this species in the shape of the disk and general appearance. 



Description of type. — Dorsal 39; anal 32; pectoral 21. Depth 4.3 

 in length without caudal; head 4.3 Eye 3.4 in head, disk 3.8. 



Body short, moderately deep and compressed, tapering to the 

 caudal fin, not attenuate. Head deep, much compressed; occiput 

 high; profile rather steep; cheeks vertical; mouth terminal; maxillary 

 reaching beneath the pupil. Teeth simple, conical, short, in a narrow 

 oblique band. Snout truncate, deep. Nostril in a short tube directly 

 in front of the eye. Eye moderate, black; pupil round. Gill slit 

 small, 3.8 in head, above the pectoral. No prickles. 



Dorsal normal; the anterior rays not buried in thick tissue, not 

 projecting. Caudal mutilated. Pectoral rays widely spaced; the 

 upper lobe of 15 rays, not reaching the anal fin; the notch shallow; the 

 lower lobe short reaching the vent, 2 in the head, the rays about half 



