DICROLENE FILAMENTOSA. 149 
from the snout to the ventrals is contained one and three fourths times in 
that from ventrals to the first anal ray. Ventrals close together, at the 
humeral symphysis, each consisting of two rays closely bound together, 
four fifths as long as the head. Scales small, deciduous, thin, flexible, 
roughened on the exposed surface, covering head and body. A small anal 
papilla. Air bladder rather large. 
Red or purple in life; gill membrane, median line of belly, dorsal, anal, 
caudal, and a spot on the basal portion of the pectoral black, as also the 
linings of mouth, gill chamber, and _ belly. 
Length of specimen described twelve inches. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3362 5ot56 INE 85° 10’ 30” W. 1175 fathoms 36.8° F. Gn. M.S. rocky 
3366 bo 307 Ne 86° 45’ W. 1067 us 37° F. YI. glob. Oz. 
3376 So OeING 82° 8’ W. 1132 se 36:3° FB. Gy. glob. Oz. 
3400 0° 36'S. 86° 46’ W. 13 20 nee 36° F. Lt. gy. glob, Oz. 
Dicrolene filamentosa sp. n. 
Plate F, fig. 1; Plate LXXV. fig. 2, Lat. Syst. 
Bry x85) Dy d00—-104 > AL 84-90; Vs 2.3 Py t4—18ee0=1i1 >) ©. 6) 1. 
ca. 140. 
Body compressed, tapering rapidly, depth three fourths of the length 
of the head, caudal region slender. Head nearly one fifth of the total 
leneth, thick, deep, arched and convex on the forehead, interorbital space 
twice the length of the eye, width of crown more than half the depth of 
the head. Snout broad, blunt, once to one and one fourth times as long as 
the eye; chin slightly ascending forward. Mouth large, cleft extending 
backward of the orbit ; maxillary reaching farther back nearly one diameter 
of the eye, much expanded at the end. Tongue with margins free. Teeth 
small, in narrow villiform bands on jaws, vomer and palatines. Vomerine 
group small, on the forward extremity of the bone, widely separated from 
the palatines. Anterior nostril porelike, half way from the posterior to 
the end of the snout, with a groove below and forward to the lip; posterior 
near the eye. Eye medium, half as wide as the interorbital space, less 
than the snout, hardly one sixth of the head. Opercular margins thin and 
‘membranous; spine weak. Preopercular spines three, small. Mucous sys- 
tem well developed, pores large, cavities in the bones of the skull moder- 
ate. Gills four, a slit behind the fourth, lamellx short. Gill rakers slender, 
