50 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
Largest individual eight and one half inches. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom, 
3397 TSB! INS 78° 34/ 20” W. 85 fathoms Dieooels Stf. gn. m. brk. 
3387 7° 40’ N. 792 W750! We Wpyp Ge 56.2° F. Fine gray sand 
SCORPAENOIDS. 
On the list of deep sea fishes there is a larger proportion of the Scorpze- 
noids than of those provisionally grouped as Percoids. This is in accord 
with the differences in habits, the former being more habituated to the 
bottom and recovering higher levels with less facility when carried down- 
ward by impulse or accident. The greatest depth on the present record is 
that noted by Vaillant in case of Sebastes Kuhlii Bowd., taken by the “Talis- 
man” off the “Bane d’Arguin” in 1274 fathoms, and again off the coasts of 
Soudan in 622 fathoms. The “ Challenger” Expedition as reported by Giin- 
ther secured S. ocuwlatus C.V. in the Straits of Magellan in 545 fathoms, and 
S. macrochir Giint. off Inosima, Japan, at 365 fathoms. In the “ Alba- 
tross” collections from the northwestern Atlantic, Goode & Bean identified 
S. marinus Linn. taken at depths of 55 to 917 fathoms; and from the east- 
ern part of the North Atlantic Scorpena dactyloptera De la Roche, in Vail- 
lant’s work on the fishes of the “ Talisman,” is given depths of 503 to 532 
fathoms in the Mediterranean and off the Canaries. Species of the Scorpe- 
noids that descend 100 to 250 fathoms are rather numerous; and it may’ 
be that all species, located where it is possible, range from the shoals to 
considerable depths. Between the Atlantic and the Pacific across the 
isthmus connections are more apparent and closer in this group than in the 
preceding ; compare Scorpeena, Pontinus and Sebastes. 
The detailed discussion of the Scorpzenidx has been transferred to 
the report on the shore fishes, excepting in case of two forms de- 
scribed below. One of the latter, Pontinus furcirhinus, properly belongs 
with the shore fishes, though descending to 200 fathoms or more. Speci- 
mens of small to medium sizes lacking the filaments and with jaws 
about equal in length have outlines resembling to some extent those of 
S. diploproa or S. aurora of Gilbert. The latter, however, have twenty-six 
vertebra, rarely twenty-five, while the present form has but twenty-four. 
The specific name furcirhinus is given it because of the forked appearance 
of the upper jaws, due to the great bunches of teeth. The other form 
described here is a degenerate type, in which the air bladder is obsolete or 
