308 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN, 



expeditiou to Ejrypt and Arabia. It is kuowu from the Gulf of Genoa, the sea of Nice 

 (Kisso), and about Sicily (Uoiiaparte and Diiderlein); and Gasco observed two from the 

 Gulf of Naples. Vaillant records it in 411-500 meters, from the Azores, and Cape Verdes, 

 from ofl' Soudan, the Banc d'Arguin, and the Gulf of Gascony. Collett obtained it from ofl' 

 Bergen, in the stomach of a codfish, and numerous specimens have been taken oft' the coast 

 of Ireland in 250 fathoms. (Giiuther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec, 18S9, 417.) Vin- 

 ciguerra {loc. cit., C19) thoroughly reviews its history. 



CCELORHYNCHUS CARMINATUS, Goodb. (Fif^ure 336.) 



Macriirtia earminatiis, Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 346, 475. — Goode and Bkan, Bull. Mua. Comp. 



Zoiil., X, 196. 

 Alacrurus {CatlorhynvUun) carminatus, Gunther, Challenger Kcport, xxil, 129, jjI. v, tig. 13. 



The body is less elongate and stouter than in 3f. Bairdii, Goode and Bean, though its 

 greatest height (12.5) is, as in 31. Bairdii, one-eighth of total length. The diiiereuce in 

 general appearance is the ventral contour retreats less rapidly in 31. carminatus. 



The scales are large, heavy, the free portions covered with long vitreous spines 

 arranged in 9 or 10 rows. These scales resemble the old-fashioned wool cards. Hence 

 the specific name, from carmen, a wool card. The spiues are thicker and more closely set 

 than in M. Bairdii, and there is no specialization of the central row. The number of scales 

 iu the lateral line can not be determined, though it probably does not exceed 100, but there 

 are about 5 transverse rows above it and 15 or 16 below it, counting from the vent obliquely 

 backward. In M. Bairdii there are 152 in the lateral line, (i above and 19 or 20 below. 



Length of head contained a little less than 5 times in total length. Width of interor- 

 bital area about equal to vertical diameter of orbit, and about one-fifth of the length of the 

 head. Length of snout, horizontal diameter of eye, length of postorbital portion of head 

 about equal. Length of operculum half that of snout. 



Snout long, sharp, depressed, triangular, the lower surface more nearly parallel with 

 the axis of the body than iu M. Bairdii. The lateral ridges are pronounced and are con- 

 tained in a straight line under the eyes and upon the preopercula. Strong horizontal 

 ridges continue from the supraorbital margins to the gill openings, parallel with the 

 subocular ridges. Nostrils immediately in front of the orbit. Barbel very short. 



Teeth small, conical, somewhat recurved, arranged in villiform bands. 



Distance of first dorsal from snout (23.5) about 4i times the length of its base (5), its 

 distance from anterior margin of orbit much less than tlie length of the head. First spine 

 very short, hardly perceptible above the skin. Second spine about half as long (11) as tlie 

 head, slender, unarmed. When laid back, its tip reaches the origin of the second dorsal or 

 beyond. The decrease iu the length of the spines is very gradual, the sixth being nearly as 

 long as the second, so that the fin is not so triangular in shape as in 31. Bairdii. 



The second dorsal begins in the perpendicular from the seventh ray of the anal. The 

 anal is much higher thau in 31. Bairdii, nearly equal to half the width of the interorbital 

 area. 



Anal fin inserted under the eighteenth scale of the lateral line (as nearly as can be 

 judged from the distorted specimen). It longest rays are as long as the width of the 

 interoi'bital area. 



Distance of pectoral from snout equal to twice its own length (11), which is about 

 equal to the length of the dorsal spine. Its insertion is below the middle of the depth of 

 the body and below the level of the center of the orbit. Its tip does not reach to the 

 perpendicular from the origin of the anal. 



Insertion of ventral behind pectoral and slightly in advance of the insertion of the dor- 

 sal. Its distance from the snout (22) is greater than twice its length (9). Its long filament 

 does not reach to the origin of the anal lin. 



Radial formula: D. 11, 80 + ; A. 70 + ; V. 13; V. 7. 



Color, silvery gray. The thick, closely-set spines are matted with oozy mud which can 



