88 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
toward the corners of the mouth; iris with radiating bars of brown. Young 
with lighter backs and blacker fins, white around the mouth, with a white 
blotch opposite the interoperculum on the margin and another near the 
hind end of the subopercle. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3368 5IS2TASIINE 86° 54’ 30” W. 66 fathoms 58.4° F. Rocky. 
Zalieutes elater. 
Malthe elater Jord. and Gilb., 1882, Proc. U. S. Mus., 365. 
Zalieutes elater Jord. and Everm., 1896, Rep. U.S. Fish Comm., 511. 
Br. 7/65 D. 6-45, A. 45 Vo62 PR. 13;(12-14));. C. 9: 
Head and body much depressed, together forming a broad subtriangular 
disk, wider backward, from which the narrow and somewhat depressed tail 
tapers to the caudal fin. Length of head about two thirds of the width, 
greatest depth through the orbits less than one third of the width. Snout 
subtruncate, concave on the top, hardly extending beyond the mouth, 
deeply excavated for the rostral illicium, tip directed forward, subconical, 
with a pair of small erect tubercles immediately behind the tip, and a large 
tubercle directed outward in front of each eye. TIllicium protractile, stem 
and bulb both capable of forward and downward movement; esca (bulb) 
large, fleshy, subtriangular, apparently without lateral lobes; basal portion 
of the bulb large and thick, and commonly with five papillae on the lower 
edge, the third papilla being median; apical portion smaller, thin at the 
edges, which fold backward, surmounted by a small bifid or simple worm- 
like process. Mouth small, width less than length of orbit, and more than 
twice the width of the interorbital space. Teeth in villiform bands on jaws, 
tongue, vomer, palatines, and pharyngeals; palatine groups rounded, much 
smaller than the vomerine. Eye large, nearly three times as long as the 
snout, lateral; orbits prominent. Forehead slightly concave. Nasal sacs 
small; anterior nostril smaller than the posterior, with a short tube. Gills 
two and one half, no gill on the first arch; rakers obsolete ; openings small, 
placed superiorly in the axilla. 
Skin covered with fine closely placed sharp striate based tubercular 
scales, among which larger tubercles are scattered with more or less irregu- 
larity. A series of the larger tubercles may be traced from each orbit at 
‘the side of the median line of the back to the caudal; at each side of the 
tail there are several series, as also along the lateral edges of the disk, where 
