116 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
by membrane ; caudal elongate, half as long as the head, narrow, of nine 
rays, pointed. Pectoral width equal to three fourths of the length of the 
head, longest ray, at the upper edge of the fin, equal to two fifths of the 
total length of the specimen; fin in three portions, of which the upper con- 
tains thirteen rays, shortening from the uppermost, the middle contains four 
shorter widely separated rays, forming an interspace, and the lower, at the 
sides of the disk, contains four independent rays of which the third and 
fourths; provided with long filaments, are nearly three tenths of the total 
length of the specimen. The rays are more rigid than those of the species 
of Paraliparis in the collection; they end in very slender and flexible 
extremities. 
Intense black, uniform over head, body, and fins. 
Total length three and three fourths inches. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3374 2°35! IN. 83253) Wis 1823 fathoms 36.4° F. Green ooze 
Paraliparis fimbriatus. 
Paraliparis fimbriatus Garman, 1892, Discoboli, p. 9. 
Plate D, fig. 3; Plate X XIX. fig. 1. 
D. 49; A. 45; V. 0, a rudimentary pelvis; P. 24. 
Greatly compressed behind the body chamber, depth one seventh of 
the total length. Head short, two elevenths of the total, five sixths as 
broad as long, flattened on the crown, broadly arched from nape to snout, 
steep on the sides. Nape broad but not high. Snout short, nearly as 
long as the eye, as seen from above broadly rounded in front, depth much 
less than the width. Mouth wide; maxillary reaching a vertical behind 
the orbit, lower jaws included. Teeth slender, in moderate numbers, 
simple, acuminate, in bands of several series. Eye medium, one fourth as 
long as the head, longer than the snout, length equal to two thirds of 
the interorbital space. Body chamber shorter than the head. Epicoracoid 
long and slender. Hinder angle of the operculum a strong sharp spine. 
Distance from the snout to the first ray of the dorsal fin four seventeenths 
of the total. First anal ray below the ninth ray of the dorsal. Vertical 
fins confluent. Caudal region narrow, deep; caudal fin acuminate. Pec- 
toral broad, without a gap between upper and lower rays, but notched 
