132 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
Lycodopsis scaurus sp. n. 
Plate XXXII. fig. 1. 
Breer. Ds. 955 2c 855 Voi pe eal CaO: 
In this species the form is moderately elongate and tapering, and the 
body cavity from the snout to the vent is one and three fourths times the 
length of the head, or nearly one third of the total length. Head com- 
paratively large, not far from one fifth of the total length; parietal region 
broader than long, flat; interorbital section narrow, longitudinally arched ; 
snout broad, shorter than the orbit, blunt, rounded; labial region swollen 
in the anterior half, to below the eye. Orbit large, more than one fourth 
of the head. Mouth wide, hardly reaching a vertical from the middle of the 
orbit; lower jaws shorter, included. Teeth small, in a single row on the 
intermaxillaries, in a band on the mandibles, absent from vomer and pala- 
tines. Nostrils prolonged in a short tube. Pseudobranchiz small, with six 
bars. Gill openings wide, membranes joined to the isthmus opposite the 
bases of the ventrals. Six branchiostegal rays. Pectorals short, two thirds 
as long as the head, broad, with twenty-one rays, scalloped on the lower 
portion of the hinder border. Dorsal low, long, originating above the axil 
of the pectoral. Anal elongate, low, first ray below the sixteenth ray of the 
dorsal. Caudal short, rounded, of ten rays, not distinct from dorsal and 
anal. Ventrals short, club-shaped, broadened toward the outer end, shorter 
than the eye, with notches at the outer end. Scales small, separated, com- 
paratively few on the muscles above the abdominal chamber, more numer- 
ous posteriorly, absent from the head. Lateral line rudimentary or obso- 
lete. 
Color brownish, on fins and lower surfaces of head blackish. 
Total length seven and one half inches. 
This form is closely allied to Z. pacificus Coll. but differs in numbers of 
fin rays, in proportions, and in color; it is also closely allied to L. paucidens 
Lock. and probably both should be placed as varieties of Collett’s species. 
The locality given for Z. pacificus is Japan, that for ZL. paucidens is San 
Francisco, California, and northward in moderate depths. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature, Bottom. 
3384 TOS IO INE 79° 14’ W. 458 fathoms 42° F. Green sand, 
