812 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



1253. M. carminaUis Goode. 



Silver- gray. Body stouter than in M. hairdi, the tail less attenuate. 

 Scales heavy, covered with long spines arranged in nine or ten rows, 

 like wool-cards {carmen), those of the middle row similar to the others. 

 Eye as deep as width of interorbital space, 5 in head. Snout long, 

 sharp, depressed, triangular, 3 in head, its lateral ridges well devel- 

 oped, running in a straight line under the eyes; a strong horizontal 

 ridge from supraorbital to gill-openings parallel with subocular ridges ; 

 barbel very short. Long ray of dorsal unarmed; anal rather high, its 

 longest rays equal to half width of interorbital space; i>ectoral not 

 reaching anal; ventral behind pectoral, its filament not reaching anal. 

 Head 5; depth 8. D. 10-80 + ; A. 76 + ; P. 13; V. 7; scales ca. 5-100- 

 12. Gulf Stream, off the coast of Ehode Island. {Goode.) 



(Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 346. ) 

 aa. Suborbital region without conspicuous bony ridge. 



1353. M. t>aii>di Goode & Bean. 



Brownish gray, bluish below; membrane of first dorsal and under 

 surface of snout pink; throat and branchiostegals deep violet; front 

 of dorsal and anal blackish. Snout sharp, quadrate, shorter than eye, 

 with 4 radiating ridges; bony ridge of preorbital and suborbital obso- 

 lete, this region unarmed and soft to the touch ; mouth less distinctly 

 inferior than in other species. Scales keeled; first long ray of first 

 dorsal strongly serrate anteriorly; vent under middle of firet dorsal. 

 Head 6^; depth 8. D. 12-137; A. 120; scales 6-152-20. Deep water, 

 off the coast of New England. This species approaches CoryphconoideSj 

 and renders the distinction of the genus Macrurus doubtful. 



(Goode & Bean, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, xiv, 471, 1877.) 



44§.— COKYPIIiElVOBDES Gunner. 

 (Gunner, Trondhj. Selsk. Skrift. iii, 50, 1765: type Coryphcenoides rupestris Gunner.) 



Snout short, obtuse, high, obliquely truncated, soft to the touch, 

 except its bony center; cleft of the mouth lateral; head without prom- 

 inent ridges, the membrane bones of the side of the head soft and 

 papery; teeth in the outer series of upper jaw somewhat enlarged. 

 Scales smooth or spinous. Lower jaw with a barbel. {-/.t>pu(^>a{>a, Cory- 

 phcena; ^{5oi;, resemblance.) 



1354. C. rupestris Gunner. 



Bones of front and sides of head thin and papery; no bony ridges 

 on sides of head; angle of i^reopercle with a conspicuous four-angled 



