154 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
bases narrow, situated low on the side, fin small, pointed, about three 
fifths as long as the head, Ventrals slightly separated at their bases, by 
nearly one half the width of the eye, of two slender filamentary rays, 
separated in much the greater part of their length; lower ray the longer, 
nearly as long as the head, upper little more than half as long. The 
distance from the ventrals to the anal is not far from the length of 
the head. The uppermost of the three lateral lines reaches the base of 
the dorsal nearly above the vent; the median extends much farther toward 
the caudal, like the lower from below the base of the pectoral along 
that of the anal. 
In some cases appearances indicate a continuation of the upper line 
along the base of the dorsal fin. 
Scales small, very thin, covering body and head. 
Head, body, fins and linings of mouth and body cavity brown to 
blackish; reddish over the muscular portions, where the scales have 
been removed, with tints of purple on the head. 
Largest specimen nineteen and one half, and smallest five and one half 
inches, the latter is very young which may account for its presence so 
near the surface, Station 3370. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth, Temperature. Bottom, 
3370 5° 36’ 40” N. 86° 56’ 50” W. 134 fathoms 54.8° FB. Rks. and S. 
3381 4° 56’ N. 80° 52! 30” W. 1772 Se 35.8° F. Gn. M. 
3382 CUOTIN. 80° 41’ W. 1793 Gy 35.8° F. Gn. M. 
3393 tool bl ON. 79° 36’ W. 1020 f 36.8° F. Gn. M. 
Porogadus atripectus sp. n. 
Plate XXXVII. fig. 3. 
Brot. 85 D.196s, A. 167; V..25 PB. Liz18s CFG: 
Body moderately compressed, very long and slender in the caudal 
portion. Head scaly, rather thick, depressed on the frontal region, flat- 
tened on the crown, depth equal to nearly half of the length, which 
latter is one seventh of the total length. Snout long, moderately broad, 
blunt, rounded, one and one half times as long as the eye. Mouth very 
wide, cleft reaching backward of the eye. Maxillary separated from the 
mouth by the intermaxillary, nearly as wide as the eye at the end. Teeth 
in villiform bands on jaws, and palatines; a short band on the basibran- 
chials; and a V-shaped group on the vomer. Eye medium, two thirds 
of the interorbital space, five eighths as long as the snout, less than one 
