CAREPROCTUS LONGIFILIS. IAs) 
doubt to phosphorescent light. There are no specially differentiated light 
producing organs, as in Sternoptychide, Stomiatide, Pediculates and others, 
though it may be the entire skin is phosphorescent. 
LIPARIDID &. 
Careproctus longifilis. 
Careproctus longifilis Garm., 1892, Discoboli, p. 9. 
Plates XX VIL. and XXVIII fig. 1; Plate X XIX. fig. 5. 
Br. r.6; D. 54; A. 49; V. 6, supporting a disk; P. 13 +4+64; C. 9. 
Body and head forming a subspherical mass, short, broad, rounded on the 
top, the sides, and the front, somewhat flattened on the lower surface at the 
disk; caudal section from the vent backward narrow and slender. From 
the snout to the anal fin is hardly more than one fourth of the total length ; 
the length of the body without tail or head is little if any more than half of 
the head’s length. Head short, less than one fifth of the total, very convex 
on the crown, on the snout and on the cheeks, flattened at the throat, as 
wide as deep, high at the occiput, curving downward steeply on the fore- 
head. Snout short, as long as the eye, deep and wide, very convex across 
the top, broadly rounded from side to side, produced very little forward of 
the mouth. Mouth large, horizontally cleft; lower jaw little shorter, in- 
eluded; maxillary reaching a vertical from the front edge of the eye. Eye 
medium, about as long as the snout, length nearly two fifths of the width 
of the interorbital space, size not far from that of the ventral disk. Teeth 
small, slender, subconical, acuminate, in villiform bands, Disk a trifle longer 
than wide, length equal to half the distance from the end of the snout, its 
distance from the vent hardly equal to its diameter. Guill openings narrow, 
as wide as the eye, above the base of the pectoral. Operculum small, hind 
angle a short spine, almost horizontal, slightly bent upward. LEpicoracoid 
spine-like, strong, two thirds as long as the head, reaching far down on the 
flank, that is, below the level of the upper part of the pectoral, bent forward 
in the middle. 
Vertical fins confluent, well developed; dorsal originating but little back- 
ward of the vent, above the axil of the pectoral, rising gradually toward the 
caudal; anal origin seven or eight rays farther from the head; both fins 
overlapping the caudal more than half of its length and connected with it 
