140 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
MAYNEA. 
Maynea Cunningham, 1870, Tr. Linn. Soc., XX VII, 471. 
Form approaching that of the Ophidioids. Body compressed, tapering, 
cavity not half the total length. Head large, rounded; snout broad and 
deep. Mouth wide, anterior; jaws equal. Teeth in villiform bands on the 
jaws, few on vomer and palatines. No barbel on the chin. Gill membranes 
united, joined to the isthmus. yes lateral. Nostrils and pores of lateral 
system small. Vertical fins united; pectorals broad ; no ventrals. Scales 
on the body small, not imbricate ; head naked. 
Maynea bulbiceps sp. n. 
Plate E, fig. 1. 
Bror6: D109; “A. 895 Ve 05) Pal: 
Body compressed, tapering, thick anteriorly; body cavity nearly two 
fifths of the total length. Head short, nearly as wide as deep, less than one 
sixth as long as the total, broad at the snout, convex on the crown, swollen 
on the cheeks, rounded at the mouth, its length two and three fourths times 
in the distance from snout to vent. Snout about three and three fourths 
times in the length of the head, blunt, broadly rounded at the jaws, convex 
and prominent on the internarial region, Eye small; orbit twice in the 
length of the snout, less than twice in the interorbital space. Mouth ante- 
rior, wide, slightly oblique, descending backward, cleft to a vertical from 
the anterior edge of the orbit; maxillary hardly reaching as far back- 
ward as hind edge of orbit; jaws equal; lips moderately thick. Teeth 
small, short but stout, unequal in sizes, in villiform bands on the jaws, in a 
single series of about four on each palatine, one or two on each side of the 
vomer; band on upper jaw narrow. Width of gill-cleft half the length of 
the head. Gill membranes united, broadly joined to the isthmus, which is 
as wide as the cleft. 
Near the end of the snout toward each side there is a small tubular nos- 
tril, in front of which there is a small pore. Mucous pores very small, 
chambers not so noticeable as on Lycodes. Vertical fins united. Dorsal 
origin one diameter of the eye or more farther backward than the base of 
the pectoral, distant from the eye about the length of the head. Anal 
origin below the twentieth ray of the dorsal fin. Caudal small, not distinct, 
