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prominent angle on the preopercle, another below the articular, and one of 
moderate size below the symphysis of the lower jaws. A peculiar modifica- 
tion of the skeleton is apparent in the anterior vertebre where the neural 
processes are short and declined toward the column, so that the supports of 
the dorsal fin are without the ordinary connection with the vertebral 
processes. 
Fins very fragile; dorsal origin three sevenths of the distance from the 
snout to the base of the caudal, length of base equal to its distance from the 
nostrils; anal short, base twice the length of the eye, origin near a vertical 
from the fifteenth ray of the dorsal; caudal deeply forked, of nineteen long 
rays; ventrals inserted below the hindmost rays of the pectorals; pectorals 
narrow, one and one half times as long as the ventrals, reaching the lateral 
line but hardly reaching the vent. 
Seales thin, small, with a spreading radiate base and a leaflike or cuplike 
crown which is more or less spiniferous, ridged, and angulated. See Pl. XII., 
figs. 6, 7. There are about eleven scales above and thirty-six below the lat- 
eral line in a transverse series, and about seventy-eight in a longitudinal 
row. Lateral system on the body a naked canal crossed by thirteen disks 
each protected by a large scale which forms a bridge over the channel. Plate 
LXXIL, fig. 1, shows several of the anterior disks of the series as continued 
back from the head. With slight variations in the groupings on the inter- 
orbital space and below the eyes, the arrangement of the lateral system 
on the head recalls that on Dicrolene and Pteroidonus, Plate LXXV., 
figs. 1,2; on Lamprogrammus, Plate LXXXL., fig. 1; on certain Gadide, 
Plate LXXXIL, figs. 1,2; and on other Berycoids, Plate LXXII., fig. 2. 
The stomach, pyloric czca, intestines, and other viscera are figured on 
Plate XIL, figs. 1, 2, 3. The stomach is comparatively large and has five 
cca; the intestine is short; the vent is midway from the head to the 
base of the caudal. Normally there are eight branchiostegal rays; the 
foremost is small and slender and is not seen on fig. 5 of Plate XII. 
The colors of the fresh specimen are shown on plate B; alcoholic speci- 
mens are deep black over the entire surface and on the linings of the body 
cavity. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3383 7° 21’ N. 79° 2! W. 1832 fathoms 36° F. Gr. glob, oz. 
