356 GA.DID^. 



upper jaw overlapping the lower, rather longer than the eye. Cleft 

 of the mouth subhorizontal, the maxillary extending nearly to the 

 vertical from the posterior margin of the eye. Teeth cardiform, 

 forming narrow bands in the jaws and on the vomer. Barbel small. 

 The width of the bony interorbital space equals the vertical diameter 

 of the orbit. Head covered with small scales, except on the lips. 

 The operculum terminates in a stiff, longish point. Only the base 

 of the fins is enveloped in a scaly membrane : the anterior dorsal is 

 higher than long, its height being less than one-third of the length 

 of the head ; it commences immediately behind the vertical from the 

 root of the pectorals. The margins of the second dorsal and of the 

 anal are even, slightly rounded behind, the latter fin being somewhat 

 the lower. Caudal subtruncated. Pectoral two-thirds as long as 

 the head. The vent is situated below the seventh ray of the second 

 dorsal. 



Body brownish, tinged with yellowish ; vertical fins dark-brown ; 

 vent blackish ; inside of mouth white. 



12. L^EMONEMA. 



Phycis, sp., Loive. 



Body of moderate length, covered with small scales. Fins naked. 

 A separate caudal ; two dorsal fins and one anal, the anterior dorsal 

 composed of five rays ; ventrals reduced to a single long ray, bifid at 

 its end. Bands of viUiform teeth in the jaws ; a small group of 

 vomerine teeth ; none on the palatine bones. Chin with a barbel. 

 Branchiostegals seven. 



Sea of Madeira. 



1. Laemonema yarrellii. 



Phycis yarrellii, Lowb, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 190, and Fish. Madeir. 

 p. 43. tab. 7. 



D. 5 I 60. A. 59. L. lat. ca 110. 



Anterioi rays of the first dorsal prolonged ; ventral not extending 

 to the vent. Eight series of scales between the anterior dorsal and 

 the lateral line. 



Madeira. 



a. Seven and a half inches long. Madeira. — Type of the species. 



Description. — Head rather depressed, not much higher than broad ; 

 nape slightly elevated ; body much compressed ; tail tapering into a 

 narrow band. The greatest depth of the body is above the vent, 

 where it equals the length of the head, and is a little more than one- 

 fifth of the total length (without caudal). Snout obtuse, rounded, 

 with the upper jaw overlapping the lower, as long as the eye, the 

 diameter of which is thrice and two-thirds in the length of the head. 

 Cleft of the mouth subhorizontal, the maxUlaiy not extending to 

 below the posterior margin of the orbit. Teeth viUiform, of equal 

 size, forming narrow bands in the jaws. The lateral parts of the 

 head of the vomer arc toothless, and there is only a very small group 



