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PEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



iTion, ^^2 inilliinotcrs in length, was presented by Capt. William H. Greenleaf and the crew 

 or the schooner Clicsier li. Lunireiice, who secured it on the Grand Banks. 



The dentition of the La Have specimen agrees exactly with that of L. Verrillii. The 

 lower jaw has the teeth in two series, with an imperfect series of smaller ones between. The 

 upper jaw has a single series of teeth, with a few smaller ones behind the symphysis. There 

 ai-e about seven teeth on the vomer and a single row of about seven on each palatine. The 

 teeth are obtuse-conic, not curved, as in L. Verrillii. In the specimen of i. Usmarlcii from 

 La Have the colors are somewhat less regular in distribution than those described and fig- 

 ured by Eeinhardt ; instead of showing G light bands, the arrangement of light color upon the 

 dark ground of the body is as follows : One white spot on each side, above tlie posterior end 

 •of the opercular flap, the spots not meeting on the dorsal line. The first saddle-shaped 

 marking begins on the back, under the eighth ray of the dorsal fin, and extends on either 

 side nearly to the middle of the body. The second saddle-shaped marking begins under the 

 twenty-seventh dorsal ray and extends nearly to the margin of the fin, involving the width 

 of about two rays and the connecting membrane, and extends also downward nearly to the 

 middle line of the body, increasing in width as it descends. The next begins under the flfty- 

 fom-th ray, and resembles the last in form and extent. The next begins under the seventy- 

 \iinth, and, though smaller, resembles the others. The individual from the Graud Banks is 

 the largest yet recorded. The measurements are as follows : 



TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS. 



Current number of specimen. 

 Locality 



Extreme length 



Body: 



Greatest height 



Greatest width 



Width at vent 



Height at vontrals 



Height at vuit 



Snout to middle of vent 



fead: 



Greatest length 



Distance from snout to nape 



Width over evi's 



Greattst widili over clieeks 



Greiiti-st ln-iiiht over cheeks 



Witltli of interorbital area 



Heiglit over eyes 



Length of snout 



Lengtli of o]K'rculum 



Length of i>ostorbital portion of head. . . 



Length of max illary 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Distance from snout to middle ()f pupil. 



Long diameter of eye 



Dorsal ; 



Distance from snout 



Lengtii of first ray 



Leiiglh of eleventh ray 



Length of twenty-fourth ray 



Length of titty-fourth ray 



Leiigt h of uiuety-tliird ray 



Length of ray at end of tail 



Length of longest ray 



Anal : 



Distance from snout 



Lengtii of first ray 



Lengtii of twenty -fourth ray 



Length of sixty. fourth ray 



Length of eighty-tifth ray 



Limgth of longest ray..." 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Distance of tii> from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Lengtii 



Brauchiostegals 



Dorsal 



22, 491. 

 Grand Banks. 



Milli- 

 meters. 



6;i2 



Anal . 

 Pectoral . 

 Ventral. . 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



13 

 9 



lOJ 

 12 



21i 

 144 



9! 



lOi 

 74 



24 



6i 



21J 



21,991. 

 La Have Bank. 



Milli- 

 meters. 



]g 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



11 

 U 



7 



13 

 39 



20i 



9i 

 lOJ 

 10 



9 

 6 

 54 

 lOJ 

 9 



81 

 34 



24i 



5 



5i 



51 



54 



24 



54 



42 

 24 



6 



f 



20 

 32 

 12 



16 

 3 



Measurements of | CoUett's mcasuro- 

 tyiie given by ments of a type 

 lleinliardt. * specunen. t 



Danish 

 inches. 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



10 

 8 

 54 



7* 

 40' 



104 

 12.J 

 9 



64 



9 

 ca. 4 



264 

 3 

 5 



6h 

 6 



54 

 6i 



116-117 



91-93, 95 



19-20 



54 

 54 

 3 



54 



22 



334 



114 



18 

 24 



Milli- 

 meters. 



390 



lOOtha 



of 

 length. 



43 

 20J 



10 

 34 



6 



'i(J4 



4 



26J 



16 

 1« 



> Dansk. Vid. Selsk. naturvid. og math. Afb., Deel vii, 1838, 153, pi. v. 



t Norges Fiske, 1875, M. 



