54 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
XENODERMICHTHYS FUNEBRIS, new species 
FIGURE 4 
Depth 514; head 354, width 214. Snout 61% in head, convex, short, 
front end level with lower eye edge; eye 514, greatly exceeds snout, 
11% in interorbital; orbit 4145 in head; maxillary reaches below hind 
eye edge, length 214 in head, expansion 134 in eye; mouth moderate, 
little inclined from horizontal, upper jaw little protruded and with 
lower jaw included as closed; teeth minute, uniform, simple, along 
edges of jaws, those below much closer as jaws approximated rather 
closely ; interorbital convex, moderately high, width 414 in head. Gull 
opening large, laterally cleft forward nearly midway in head length. 
Gill rakers 10+17, pointed flexible lamellae, 24 longer than gill fila- 
ments or equal pupil. 
Figure 4.—Xenodermichthys funebris, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99534). 
Body scaleless. Lateral line axial along side, 55 pores from preo- 
percle to hind end of caudal squamation and 6 or more continued out 
on middle rays of caudal. 
D. 20, 1, well postmedian, sixth ray 34% in head; A. 19, origin little 
behind dorsal crigin, seventh ray 5 in head; caudal 114, fin forked, 
with broad lobes; least depth of caudal peduncle 314; pectoral small, 
short, low, rays 1, 8, fin 324 in head; ventral 6149, rays 1, 5. 
Color in aleohol uniform velvety black, little paler around dorsal 
and anal bases narrowly. Fins all blackish, like body. 
Type.—vU.S.N.M. No. 99534. D. 5348. Point Tabonan, S. 90° E., 
33.5 miles (lat. 10°57’45’’ N., long 118°38’15’’ E.), Palawan Passage. 
In 375 fathoms. December 27, 1908. No. 3534. Length 188 mm. 
to end of broken caudal. 
