DISCUSSION OF fciPKCIES AND TUliU4 DISTKIBLTION. 



MEA.SI'KEMENTS. 



4'J9 



Current number of spi 

 Locality 



Labrador. 



Lenfftb to origin of middle rau- 



dal rays 



Body: 



Height at ventrals 



Least height of tail 



Length ot caudal peduncle. 

 Head: 



Greatest length 



Height of rostral groove. . . . 



Width of ro.^tral groove. ... 



Greatest width 



Wi<Ub of interorbital area . 



Length of snout, including 

 tubercle 



Lengtli of nasal tubercle... 



AVidth of nasal tubercle 



Length ot nia-viliary 



Lengt h of mandible 



Distance between anterior 

 orbital angles 



Diameter of eye 



Dorsal : 



Distance from snout 



Milli- 

 meters. 



40 

 1.") 

 55 



76 

 f. 

 »i 



9b 



IS 



5 



15" 

 13 



n- 



14 



lOUtlis 



cd' 

 length. 



31908. 

 Pensacola, Yin 



Milli- 

 meters. 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



9 

 34 



47 



3.7 



5 

 G(l 



8 



3 

 2.8 



2.8 



9 



8 



10.5 



8.7 



35 

 15 

 5fi 



80 



7 



7 

 94 

 12 



G 



U 



4j 



14' 



15 



tl6 

 13 



20. 5 

 8.8 

 32 



40.8 

 4 

 4 



3.5 

 2.5 



9.3 

 7.3 



t'urrent number cd" specimen . 

 Locality 



Lab 



Mini- 

 meters. 



1. I 31908. 



•adur. j Pensacida, Fl:i. 



lOOths 



Id' 

 length. 



Dors.al— Continueil. 



Length of base ! 7 



Height at second r;iy 10 ( ?) 



Anal : 



Distance from sniiut 



Leiigtli of base 



Long(!st ray 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays . .. 



Lengt 1 1 of external rays . . 

 Pectoral ; 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length |ca. 30 



Distance of veni froiusiiou 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Pectoral 



Ventral 



133 



20 



39 

 32 



94 

 32 



56 



.82. n 

 4.3 

 [2. 5 



24 

 20 



58 

 20 



:m.k 



18. (i 



139 



§12 



81 



i-i.'s 



* Between posterior angles, 20. 

 t Between posterior angles. 17, 



; The membrane larking. 

 § Including membrane. 



OXCHOCEPHALU.S VE8PERTILIO, (Linnjsu.s), Goode ami Bean. 



Lophiiis vespertilin, Linx.eii.s, Syst. Nat. Ed. x, 1, 23(). 



Mallhe vcspertllio, Cuvinu and Valencienne.s, Hist. Nat. Poi.s.s., xii, 440.— Cii)<)i>E, Bull, vi, U. S. Nat. Mu8. 

 (full synouymy). 



A Malthe, witli distaiifc between the aiitinior angles of orbits less tliau that between 

 the po.sterior angles; a subeonical process projecting forward from the head, variable in 

 length but longer than in the other species (about one-tenth of total) ; rostral groove longer 

 than broad. Color, grayisli-brown above, tjiwny below. 



IJadial formula: D. 4; A. 4. 



Specimens were obtained by the Blalc at station CLXIX, in 24° 4(J' X. lat., 83° 10' W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 36 fathoms, and at station CLXxr. in 24° 43' N. lat., 83° 25' W. loii., at a depth 

 of 37 fathoms. Also, by the Albatross from station 2311, in 32° 55' N. lat., 77° 54' W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 70 fathoms; from station 2313, in 32o .")3' X. hit., 77° 53' W. Ion., at a depth of 99 

 fathoms; from station 2302, in 22° 08' 30" N. lat., 80° 51' 15" W. Ion., at a depth of 25 fath- 

 oms; from station 2402, in 28° 30' N. lat., 85° 33' 30" W. ion., at a depth of 111 lathoms; 

 from station 2404, in 28'^ 44' N. lat., So-^ IC W, Ion., at a depth of (JO fathoms; from station 

 2405, ill 28° 45' N. lat., 85° 02' W. Iim., at a depth of 30 fathoms; from station 2400, in 26° 

 4G' N. lat., 84° 49' W. Ion., at a depth of 20 fathoms; from station 2417, in 33-^ 18' 30" N. 

 lat., 77° 07' W. loiL, at a depth of 95 fathoms, and from station 2318, iu 24=3 25' 45" X. lat., 

 810 46' 45" W. Ion., at a- depth of 45 fathoms. 



HALIEUT^^A, Cuv. and Val. (Kis;urc 403.) 



HalieuUra, OfVIEn .and Valence.vnes, Tlist. Nat. Poiss. \ii, 4.-..'>.— Gi'NTirRU, Cat. Fi.sli. Bvit. Afii.s., ill, 203. 



Jlaltheids with subcircnlar body disk, and slender caudal ])edun<-le, with depressed 

 frontal region and snout rounded and obtuse, and with cimspicuous rostral tentacle. Jlouth 

 large, palate toothless. Carpus e.vserted. Gills in 2.V pairs. 



This genus was known only from the northwest Pact tic, where tin; IMieuUvn strlhita, 

 whose dried skin is so familiar iu the insect bo.ves made up for sale to visitors, occurs at 

 considerable depth. In 1889 the Tnvestujator obtained a new species, pink and crimson in 

 color, iu the Andaman Sea, in 205 fathoms, which Akock names IMkutwa cocanca. (Fig, 



410.)' 



' Auu. ic M:i-'. Nat. Hist., 1889, 382. 



