PARALIPARIS GRANDICEPS. ial 
somewhat by the shorter fifth and sixth rays counting from beneath, each 
ray prolonged in a soft filament. Ventral disk obsolete, but pelvic bones 
remaining as a pair of thin elements behind the humeral symphysis, Plate 
XXIX., Fig. 1. These pelvic rudiments occupy a similar position but are 
closer together than those of P. attenuatus. In the ovary there are fourteen 
or fifteen eggs as large as the orbit, and among them numerous others 
much smaller, varying in size from that of a cabbage seed downward. 
Purplish black anteriorly; shading to greyish near the mid caudal 
vertebrae and backward. 
Four inches in total length. 
Station. Latitude, Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3381 4° 56’ N. 80° 52’ 30” W. 1772 fathoms 35.8° F. Green mud 
Paraliparis grandiceps sp. 
Plate X XIX. figs. 4-Le. 
DF cab Acar 42-7 Py lo, 151 1,..5: 
The specimen described is very badly preserved. Evidently the species 
bears considerable resemblance in form and proportions to P. bathybius, 
characterized by Collett from types secured in the northeastern Atlantic. 
Body and tail compressed, depth not far from one fifth of the total length, 
Caudal section thick, deep anteriorly and for some distance back from the 
body, then decreasing in depth rapidly and becoming thin and slender. 
Head as broad and deep as long, nearly one sixth of the total length, 
narrowed somewhat at the snout, subquadrangular in transsection across 
the orbits, flattened or slightly concave on the crown, swollen on the cheek. 
Snout blunt, longer than the orbit, a trifle overhanging the mouth. Mouth 
wide, maxillary extending below the entire orbit. Teeth small, short, 
robust, blunt, subconical, with broad bases, firmly attached, in one series on 
each jaw, larger toward the angles of the mouth. Orbit rather large, less 
than the length of the snout, less than one third of the length of the head. 
Origin of the dorsal distant from the head about half the length of the 
latter. Anal origin below the eighteenth ray of the dorsal. The outlines 
of dorsal and anal are in a measure like those of Liparis Agassiz ; the 
longest rays occur near three fifths of the distance from snout to caudal, 
and are not less than two thirds as long as the head. Throughout the 
length these fins are rather wide. Pectorals wide, the entire width being 
