358 GADID^. 



not extend so far backwards as the inner ventral filament. The 

 outer filament of the ventral considerably shorter than the inner. 

 Body brown, immaculate ; fins black. 



13. HALOPOEPHYRTJS*. 



Body elongate, covered with small scales. A separate caudal ; two 

 dorsal fins and one anal, the first dorsal with four rays ; ventrals 

 narrow, composed of six rays. Jaws with bands of villiform teeth ; 

 vomerine teeth in a small roundish patch ; none on the palatine bones. 

 Chin with a barbel. Branchiostegals seven. 



Mediterranean; Madeira. 



1. Haloporphyrus lepidion. 



Gadus lepidion, Misso, Ichih. Nice, p. 118. pi. 11. fig. 40 (bad). 

 Lota lepidion, Misso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 218. 



D. 4 I 54. A. 49. V. 6. L. lat. 210. 



The upper jaw is longer than the lower ; the first dorsal ray and 

 the ventral fins prolonged into very long filaments. Brown. 

 Mediterranean; Madeira. 



a. Very fine specimen, two feet long. Madeira. Presented by J. Y. 

 Johnson, Esq. 



Description. — Head higher than broad, with the nape elevated and 

 with the snout depressed ; body compressed ; tail tapering into a 

 narrow band. The gi-eatest depth of the body is below the origin of 

 the second dorsal, and a little less than the length of the head, which 

 is one-fom-th of the total (without caudal). Snout subconical, obtiisely 

 rounded, with the upper jaw overlapping the lower, much longer than 

 the orbit, the diameter of which is one-sixth of the length of the head. 

 Cleft of the mouth siibhorizontal, the maxillary not extending to the 

 vertical from the hind margin of the eye. Teeth villiform, forming 

 bands; the band of the upper jaw not covered by the lips ; a small 

 rounded patch of villiform teeth in the middle of the head of the 

 vomer. Barbel very slender, longer than the orbit. The width of 

 the interorbital space equals the horizontal diameter of the orbit. 

 Operculum terminating in an obtuse point covered with skin ; the 

 head, with the exception of the lips, is entirely covered with small 

 scales. There are about fifteen longitudinal series of scales between the 

 anterior dorsal and the lateral line. The first dorsal is very narrow, 

 situated above the root of the pectoral ; its first ray is produced into 

 a filament, which is much longer than the head. The second dorsal 

 and the anal are enveloped in a loose scaly membrane : the fonner 

 is of moderate height, has the margin even, and terminates at some 

 distance from the caudal. The vent is situated in the vertical from 

 the twelfth ray of the second dorsal : the anal commences immediately 

 behind it ; there is a slight depression in the middle of its length, the 



* The generic name of Lepidion is preoccupied. 



