270 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



Head very large, its length, breadtli, aud depth nearly equal; the greatest depth at 

 the nape; four bony tubercles on top of head and some at the sides, all covered by the skin; 

 lower jaw included; maxillai'y extending to below the middle of the eye, which is equal to 

 the snout, and al)()ut 4i in head; suborbital stay aiul the roughish edge of the i)reopercle 

 both covered by smooth skin; chin and preoi'bital with jxires. Skin everywhere thin, 

 somewhat movable, its surface roughened by small, blunt warts. Dorsal fin continous, the 

 feeble spines lower than the soft rays; pectorals barely reaching anal; caudal long. Head 

 2g; depth 3i. [Jordan and Gilbert.) 



Eadial formula: U. vi, 19; A. 10. 



Color, pale, with three broad, dusky cross bands on body and tins, one on head, one 

 through spinous dorsal and pectoral, one through second dorsal and anal, besides a small 

 band at base of caudal. 



This species was first described from a specimen measuring 15 millimeters, dredged by 

 Prof. G. O. Sars at Hasvig, near Hammerfest, in 200 fathoms, August, 1874; another, 50 

 millimeters long, near Trondhjemsfjord, in 1878, by Mr. Striim, at a depth of 180 fathoms; 

 again, at a depth of 191 fathoms, 18 miles northwest from Hammerfest (72° 27' N., 20'^ 51' 

 W.), iu temperature 3° .5 C, and at a depth of 159 fathoms; 15 miles westward of north- 

 western Spitzbergen (79° 59' N., 5° 40' W.), with temperature of 1° C. 



The Blake secured a specimen of this species from station cccix, in 40° 11' 40" N. lat., 

 68° 22' W. Ion., at a depth of 304 tathoms; and two examples fi'om station cccx, in 39° 59' 

 16" N. lat., 70° 18' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 200 fathoms. 



Specimens were taken by the Fuh Hawic as follows : No. 20087, U. S. N. M., from sta- 

 tion 880, in 38° 48' 30" N. lat., 70° 54' W, Ion., at a depth of 252* fathoms; No. 31760, U. S. 

 N. M., from station 1142, in 39o 32' N. lat., 72° 00' W. Ion., at a depth of 322 fathoms; No. 

 28728, U. S. K M., from station 925, iu 39° 55' N. lat., 70° 47' W. Ion., at a depth of 229 

 fathoms; No. 28798, U. S. N. M., from station 947, in 30° 53' 30" N. lat., 71° 13' 30" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 319 fathoms; No. 28771, U. S. N. M., from station 938, in .39o 51' N. lat., 69° 

 49' 15" W. Ion., at a depth of 317 fathoms; No. 28814, U. S. N. M., from station 946, in 39° 

 55' 30" N. lat., 71° 14' W. Ion., at a depth of 247 fathoms; No. 29077, U. S. N. M., from 

 station 1049, in 38° 28' N. lat., 73° 22' W. Ion., at a depth of 435 fathoms; No. 28936, U. S- 

 N. M., from station 1031, in 39° 57' N. lat., 09° 19' W. Ion., at a depth of 255 fothoms; No. 

 28922, U. S. N. M., from station 998, in 39° 43' N. lat., 71° 32' W. Ion., at a depth of 302 

 fathoms; No.2017(i, U. S. N. M., from station 895, in 39° .56' 30" N.lat., 70° 59' 45" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 2.58 fatlioms; No. 26167, U. S. N. ]\I.,-from station 892, in 39° 46' N. lat., 71° 

 05' W. Ion., at a depth of 487 fathoms; and also from station 894. in 39° 53' N. lat., 70° 58' 

 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 365 fathoms. 



Additional specimens were obtained by the Albatross as follows: No. 33310, U. S.N. 

 M., from station 2028, iu 39° 57' 50" N. lat., 70° 32' W. Ion., at a depth of 209 fathoms; No. 

 33465, U. S. N. M., from station 2063, in 42° 23' N. hit., 66° 23' W. Ion., at a depth of 141 

 fathoms; No. 33514, U. S. N. M., from station 2092, in 39° 58' 35" N. lat., 71° 00' 30" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 197 tathoms; No. 33479, U. S. N. M., from station, in 42° 15' 25" N. lat., 65° 48' 

 40" W. Ion., at a depth of 122 fathoms; and No. 35461, U. S. N. M., from station 2187, iu39o 

 49' 30" N. lat., 71° 10' W. Ion., at a depth of 420 fathoms, 



COTTUNCULUS THOMSONII, Guntheb. (Figures 258, 262 A, B.) 



Cottus Thomsonii, Gunther, Proc. Royal Soc, Ediuburgli, xi, 1882, 679. 

 Cottuiiculus Thomsonii, Guntiikr, Challengor Report, xxil, 1887, 61, pi. ix, fig. B. 



Cottunculus torvm, Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880,479; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., x, 1883, 212,213.— 

 Jordan and Gilbeht, Bull, xvi, U. S. N. M., 688. 



Head and body smooth, scaleless, covered with a tough, lax skin. The length of the 

 head is nearly one-third of the extreme length of the 1)ody, including the caudal; its 

 greatest height, one fourth of the body without the caudal. The greatest width of the 

 head is twice the length of the maxilla. The distance of the vent from the insertion of 

 the anal equals the length of the maxilla. The eye is close to the dorsal profile. The 



