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of tlie secoDcl dorsal, aud the aual coiiiiiicnces imuiediately bcliind it. The foui th to sovcnth 

 rays are the longest, the posterior decreasing in length to the seventeenth, after wliieli fonr 

 or five short rays follow, preceding the stronger rays of the second anal, liase of the pec- 

 torals narrow, its length being more than one-half of the length of the luMid; ventnils very 

 narrow, with flat base, the onter ray being produced into a very tine filament of moderate 

 length. The scales extend forward on the snout. 



Eadial formula : D. 7 + 47— 57: A. 41— 40. 



The color appears to have been a delicate red on sihery ground; ])«'(toral and anal 

 transparent. Mouth and gill cavity black. {GUnfhrr.) 



Distance of the end of the snout from the extremity of tlio operculum. 



Distance of the end of the snout from the orifiin of 'tlie first dorsal 



Distance of the end of the snout from the orij^in of the secoiul dorsal .. 



Distance of the end of the snout from the vent 



Distance of the end of the snout from the ori;;iu of the second .anal 



Inches. 



This species, of which a figure has never been published, was first described by Dr. 

 Giinther from a specimen collected by J. T. Johnson, at Madeira, irom the stomach of a 

 Saccopharyn.r. lie informs us that several specimens have since been sent to the British 

 Museum from N'ew Zealand, where it is at times abundant. 



ERETMOPHORUS, Giglioli. 

 Eretmophorus, G1GI.10LI, Troc. Zool. Soc, Lomloii, ISSH, 328 (type, E. Kldnenhergii, Toe. ril., PI. xxxiv.) 



A genus of Gadoidea having two dorsal fins and one anal, with elongate, ex.serted, 

 ventral rays, the median ones with lanceolate tips; a large abdominal cone. 



ERETMOPHORUS KLEINENBERGI, Giglioli. 



Eretmophorus Klehienbergii, Giglioli, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1889, 328, PI. xxxiv. 



Body compressed, tapering toward the tail, but less so in the younger specimen, in 

 which the huge and singular abdominal cone is also less developed. The height of the 

 body behind the abdominal cone is contained between 5i and (> times in the total length 

 exclusive of the caudal fin. The lateral line extends nearly in a straight line from the 

 branchial cleft to the end of the root of the tail ; it is merely marked as a furrow with 

 indistinct pits along its course; in the larger specimen at its cephalic end two slight fur- 

 rows run parallel with it above and beneath. The head is moderate, rather large; its 

 length is contained al)out 5 times in the total exclusive of the caudal tin: fiie snout is 

 short, nearly equal to the transverse diameter of the eye; its anterior contour is rounded; 

 there is a slight median gibbosity in front over the mouth. This is moderate, its aperture 

 hardly reaching the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye. Nostrils in front and a 

 little above the eye, the posterior aperture largest aud oval. Eye moderate; behind it, 

 and extending toward the iiape and downwards along the preoperculum, are two series of 

 conspicuous pores. The space between the eyes is nearly flat aud rather broader than the 

 diameter of the eye; behind, the nape rises convex, presenting a median furrow in front of 

 the first dorsal in the older specimen. On the nape in the larger specimen are a nuin])er 

 of very distinct hyaline cylindrical warts, just like those of BeUottia except in shape; the 

 latter have been described by Prof Emery' and are nearly hemisi)lierical. In Eretmo- 

 phorus they begin just behind the interocular space and appear to form a double scries; in 

 the older specimen I counted eight, but a few more extend toward the head of the lateral 

 line; they are evidently sense-organs allied to those of the lateral Hue. In concluding I 

 I must state that these warts art; not ti> be seen on the two younger specimens, in which 

 they appear to be represented by ]>oies, more numerous and more distinct than in the older 

 and larger si)ecimen. 



'C. Emery, "Contribuzioni nil' Ittiologia," in Mittheil. a. d. Zool. Station m Neapel, VI, p. 157 tav. 10, 



a: 18, 19. Naples, 1885. 



