POROGADUS BREVICEPS. 155 
fifth of the head. Internarial ridge moderately prominent; a prominence 
above the tip of the snout. Bones of the skull cavernous; two series 
of three to five short spines each on the edges of the preopercle; a thin, 
flattened, keelless, blunt spine on the upper edge of the opercle; two 
to four short spines apparent to the touch above each eye. Gills four, 
a slit behind the fourth; rakers elongate, one and one eighth times as 
long as the eye, slender, two and several rudiments on the upper portion 
of the first arch and fourteen besides a number of rudiments on the 
lower part. Anterior nostril smaller than the posterior and half-way from 
it to the end of the snout. The distance from the occiput to the first ray 
of the dorsal equals that to the front edge of the orbit. Caudal united 
to dorsal and anal, but extending beyond them. Pectorals small, about 
two thirds as long as the head, prolonged in filaments. Ventrals thread- 
like, of two rays partly bound together, inserted below the subopercle, 
close together, in length four fifths the length of the head. A lateral line 
of six or seven cavities appears immediately behind the head about six 
scales below the dorsal fin, below this six or seven scales, again, there 
is a similar line continued farther back, and at the lower edge of the 
base of the pectoral there is a line that is continued along the base of 
the anal fin. 
Scales small, very thin and flexible, about twenty-six between the 
anterior rays of dorsal and anal. 
Snout, lower portion of head, cheeks, chest, belly, and linings of mouth 
and body cavity black ; top of skull from nostrils backward light, possibly 
luminous in life; body flesh color with indications of having been darker 
and tinted with more or less brilliant red or purple when alive; dorsal 
and anal yellowish or whitish on the basal portions and black on the 
outer edge. 
Total length twelve and one-half inches. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature, Bottom, 
3392 ye GY Bio eINE 79° 40’ W. 1270 fathoms 36.4° F. Hard. 
3366 5° 30’ N. 86° 45’ W. 1067 us 37° BF. Yl. glob. Oz. 
3419 16° 34’ 30” N. 1002 3) W. iia ss 39° F. Gn. M. bk. Sp. 
Porogadus breviceps sp. n. 
Bror. 85D. V4-178; A. 145-150; V.2; P: 17; €. 5 (6): 
In this species the head is shorter, wider, and more convex and the snout 
broader and more blunt than in either P. longiceps, or P. atripectus. The 
