492 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



NOTES ON THE TYPE SPECIMEN. 



Tlie typo of Cryjilopsaras CoKesii, at present is only ■'>^> millimeters long, the candal being 

 imperfect. The length without caudal is 30 millimeters and contains the greatest height 

 2J times. The bulb ou the dorsal spine when laid backward can be made to reach the 

 dermal caruncles ou the bat^k. The length of the n]i]ier jaw is about one-fourth of the 

 leugth without caudal. The gill oi)eniug is nearly midway between the front of the head 

 and the root of the tail. The mouth is placed vertically. The intermaxillaiy teeth occupy 

 about the entire length of the bone. The mandibulary teeth are very unequal in size. At 

 the symphysis of the mandible there is a pair of minute spines closely connected at the 

 base and slightly separated at the extremity. 



Specimen No. 394S."} is 58 millimeters long; 47 ndllimeters to base of caudal. The 

 greatest height is contained in the length without caudal 2% times. The gill opening is a 

 little nearer to the end of the caudal than to the front of the head. The distal portion of 

 the dorsal spine is about one-half the length without caudal. The median dei'mal caruncle 

 is very nuich larger than the two lateral ones. 



The skin is covered with minute granides of uniform size. The pectoral contains 16 

 rays; its length is about one-flftli the leugth of the head. The length of the upper jaw is 

 about one-lifth of the total without caudal. The i)air of sijines at the symphysis of the 

 mandible is replaced by a very small knob. The teeth in the intermaxillary are all very 

 small, diminishing in nttmber toM'ards the symphysis; they are apparently uniserial. 



On each side of the head of the vomer there are two or three depressible teeth; the 

 palatines seem to be wanting. 



We have seen something like traces of similar teeth ou the vomer of Maiicalias Shnfeldtii, 

 but owing to the condition of the specimen can not be certain about this character. 



ONEIRODES, Lutken. 



Oneirodes, LtlTKEN, Overs, over d. K. Dauske Vld. Selsk. Forhaudl, 1871, 56-74 (type, O. Eschrichtii, 



Liitkeu). — Gill, Proc. II. S. N. M., i, 228. — Gunther, Challenger Report, xxii, p. 55. 

 Onirodes, Jordan and Gii.bkut, Bull, xvi, IT. S. N. M., p. 848. 



Ceratiids with very large head and body, comi)ressed, oval, short, and naked: mouth 

 moderate, with cleft nearly horizontal and mandibular articulation behind eyes; teeth 

 depressible, unequal in size in the jaws, vomer dentigenous, branchial arches unarmed; 

 branchi* in 2^ pairs; jtyloric ca-ca none; first dorsal spine cephalic, with a iJiocumbent, 

 subcutaneous basal element and a bulbous termiuatiou, siumonnted by slender tilainents 

 in several transverse rows; second about midway from rostral spine to the soft dorsal fin; 

 soft dorsal and anal fins short; ventrals none. 



ONEIRODES ESCHRICHTII, Lutken. 



Oneirodes Esckriihtii, LiJTKEN, Overs, over d. K. Dauske, Vid. Selsk. Forhaudl., 1871, ^ip. 56-74, ves. fr. 9-18, 



pi. II. — GtJNTHER, Challenger Report, xxii. 56. — Gill, loc. eit. 

 Onirodes Jiaehric.hti, Jordan, loc. cit. 



The only representative of this species is a specimen 8 inches long, taken off 

 Greenland before 1871. 



The original descri])tion by Liitkeu is appended: 



Oneirodcx tJfichrichtii. — Genus et species nova e familia Loplilo'iileorum {Ilidihdfrachoruni); 

 uec non e tribu Lophioideorum apodum nudorum corjnis breve, crassum, mediocriter com- 

 pressum. t'aput maximum, tetragonum, froute declivi, profuude excavato; rictus oris 

 mediocris, horizontalis; oculi miuuti, absconditi; dentes mediocres, graciles, elongati, 

 conici, subincurvi, mobilis in maxillis, in vomere et in pharynge supra; in pallato luilli. 

 Apertura braiu-hialis sat magna, infra insertionom i)innarum ]iectoralium; jiseuditbranchije 

 operculares ludhe; arcus bianchialis primus branchiis destitutus; branchiorum paria 2i, 

 cute arcum brauchiale quarttim cum osse hyiiopharyngeali conjugente; radii brauchiostigi 

 utrinque sex. Pinnaj ventrales nulhu (pectorales iguotie). Radius frontalis cum osse 



