CLASSIFIED RESUME OF ORGANISMS OBSERVED 323 



Family cetomimidae 



At 1500 and again at 2500 feet I saw an entirely new 

 fish which I have named Bathyembryx istiophasma and 

 tentatively placed in this family.^ It was at least two feet 

 in length, moderately slender, and an unhealthy-looking 

 buff in color. Its most striking characteristic was the very 

 large and sail-like vertical fins, which were placed far 

 back, immediately in front of the degenerate button-like 

 caudal. The fish entirely lacked illumination of any kind. 



Family macrouridae 



Large-headed, rat-tailed, macrourid-like fishes were 

 sighted five times from the bathysphere between 1000 and 

 2500 feet. They were six to eighteen inches in length. On 

 four occasions single ones were seen; on the fifth, three six- 

 inch fish were together. Each of the latter group and one 

 of the single fish showed at least six good-sized lights. Two 

 of the remaining individuals had only a single light — one 

 under each eye — and one completely lacked illumination. 



Half a dozen specimens of this family have been taken 

 in the trawling nets well above the sea-bottom, between 

 3000 and 6000 feet. None of these measured more than 

 several inches in length, and none showed any signs of 

 illumination. 



1 Bull. N. Y. Zool. Soc, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6. 



