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the third shorter tbaii the diameter of orbit; pectorals four times as 

 loug as the opercle. Scales large and thin; lateral line much broken 

 posteriorly. Head 4i; depth 5. D. 9 or 10, 5G; A. 56; Lat. 1. 90. 

 {Goode and Bean.) Coast of Massachusetts, in deep water. 



(Goode and Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 1878, 256.) 



438.— MALOPORPHYRUS Giiuther. 

 (Lepidion Swainsou ; preoccupied as iej^idia.) 

 (Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 358, 1882: type Gadm lepidion Risso.) 



Body elongate, comi)ressed, tapering into a slender tail. Scales Yery 

 small. Head entirely scaly, even to the gill-membranes. Snout de- 

 l)ressed, thin and flat, projecting beyond the mouth; mouth rather large ; 

 chin with a barbel; jaws with bands of Yilliform teeth; a small round- 

 ish patch of teeth on Yomer, none on palatines. Dorsal fins two ; the 

 first short, its anterior ray produced into a long filament; anal fin 

 deeply notched, almost separated into two fins; ventral fins with six 

 rays, one of them filamentous; caudal truncate. Branchiostegals 7. 

 Deep-water fishes. {dXq, sea; -opfvpo^^ purple, from the deep colora- 

 tion.) 



1333. H. viola Goode & Bean. 



Color, deep violet or blue-black ; inside of mouth and opercles blue- 

 black; snout broad, pointed at tip, much depressed, forming a roof-like 

 projection above mouth ; a conspicuous keel extending backward from 

 tip of snout along the suborbital to the posterior margin of the eye. 

 Mouth U-shaped, wholly inferior; maxillary nearly reaching posterior 

 margin of orbit; interorbital space flat, as wide as the large eye, the 

 orbital ridges somewhat elevated; barbel about one-half diameter of 

 orbit. First dorsal with its first ray much produced, longer than head ; 

 anal fin deeply notched near its middle. Caudal peduncle as long as 

 eye; its depth more than half its length; longest ray of ventrals reach- 

 ing about half way to vent; pectoral IJ in head. Head 4^; depth 5. 

 D. 4-53; A. 40; V. G; Lat. 1. 115. Banks of Newfoundland and south- 

 ward, in deep water.. 



{Haloporphyrus viola Goode and Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 256, 1878.) 



439.-PH¥SICULUS Kanp. 



(Kaup, Wiegmann's Arcbiv. 1858, 88: type Physicttlits daluigldi Kaup.) 



Body elongate, covered with small scales; head entirely scaly ; snout 

 broad, obtusely rounded, projecting beyond the mouth ; mouth of mod- 



