BASSOGIGAS STELLIFEROIDES. 161 
Bones of the skull thin and fragile, deeply excavated for the muciparous 
canals. Snout shorter than the orbit, depressed, broadly rounded at the 
end, prominent on the top forward of the nostrils. Mouth wide; lower 
jaw little if any longer than the upper; maxillary broadened and _ trun- 
cate at the end, reaching backward of the middle of the eye. Teeth 
small, in villiform bands on jaws and palatines and in a prominent V-shaped 
group on the vomer. Chin with a slight knob below the symphysis. Eye 
moderately large; orbit one fourth as long as the head, longer than the 
snout, in length equal to the width of the interorbital space. Preorbitals 
and suborbitals widely expanded; channels of the lateral system on the 
head wide and deep. Operculum with a medium sized spine on its hinder 
angle and another, of less prominence, directed downward from the lower 
corner. Gills four; lamellae short; gill rakers comparatively few and 
short; gill openings wide; membranes hardly united, free from the 
isthmus. No pseudobranchie. 
Vertical fins continuous ; dorsal origin above the axil of the pectoral ; 
caudal elongate, slender, pointed; pectorals somewhat broad ; ventrals close 
together, each of a simple, slender, filamentary ray three fourths as long 
as the head. 
Light olivaceous brown, probably yellowish in life, with scattered com- 
paratively large puncticulations of black; inside of mouth whitish to yel- 
lowish ; abdominal cavity lined with black; dorsal and anal with blackish 
margins ; caudal blackish. 
Named in honor of Professor D. S. Jordan, in token of a hearty appre- 
ciation of his work in North American Ichthyology. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude, Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3404 1238: 89° 28’ W. 385 fathoms 43.2° F. Rocky. 
Bassogigas stelliferoides. 
Neobythites stelliferoides Gilb., 1890, P. U. S. Mus., 112. 
Bassogiqas stelliferoides Jord. & Everm., 1898, Bull. 47, U. S. Mus., 2516. 
Plate LX.XX. fig. 1, Lat. Syst. 
Br. vr. 8; D. 96; A. 81-83; V. 1, bifid; P. 27-29; C.8; Ll. 104, ca.; 
Ltr. 40, ca. 
Head and body compressed, length and taper moderate; head four 
and three fourths times in the total length; depth four fifths of the 
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