106 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
at each side of the symphysis of the lower jaws is immediately forward of 
the space between the first and the third. 
Uniform dark brown; fins black. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3392 FO GY BOM INE 79° 40' W. 1270 fathoms 36.4° F. Hard. 
3393 TAS TG Is 79° 36’ W. 1020 « 36.8° F. Gn. M. 
Malthopsis spinulosa sp. n. 
Plate XXTI., XXVI. 
Br. t6;:/6-65 AlAs Vos Bt 13 C9: 
Any idea of a close relationship with MW. sparsa, Plate XVIII., that 
might be suggested by similarity in the outlines of the present type is 
dissipated on comparison of the coloration, the spines and the subopercular 
tubercle; the tubercle is obsolescent, the spines are very fine, and give the 
surface more of a velvety appearance, and the colors have more of the 
characteristics of those of great depths. Though taken from depths of 200 
to 300 fathoms, the colors of JZ. sparsa were in great degree suggestive of 
the influence of sunlight. Body and head much depressed, together form- 
ing a subcircular disk, with blunted corners at each side of the snout and 
opposite each subopercle; length of body from snout to vent about one 
length of the eye more than that of the head. Length of skull nearly half 
and depth of head one third of the width of the disk; crown slightly convex 
from the internarial region to the nape; interorbital region little concave 
transversely. Snout short, shorter at the top, excavated between the nasal 
sacs for the trilobed, protractile illicium ; chin longer. Median lobe of esca 
larger, foliaceous toward the upper edge, with a slender prolongation at the 
top and a median groove on the back, movable forward and down when in 
function; recess apparently lined with luminous tissue; lateral lobes 
smaller, rounder, in some of the specimens at hand highly tinted with a 
different color from that of the median lobe. Nasal sacs prominent; pos- 
terior nostril large, transverse; anterior much smaller, round, with a short, 
bell-shaped tube. Anterior edge of rostrum in most cases slightly turned 
upward. Mouth of moderate width, oblique, wider than the interorbital 
space ; lower jaws longer. Teeth in villiform bands on the jaws, in large 
closely placed groups on the vomer and the palatines, and in a broad band 
twice as long as wide on the tongue; pharyngeal groups small, rounded, see 
Plate XXVI., Fig. 4 to 7. Eye one third of the length from snout to nape, 
