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the middle; the former is separated from the first dorsal by a very narrow 
notch. The anal is little shorter than the second dorsal and originates below 
the hindmost ray of the first dorsal, Pectorals sinall, reaching back below 
ten or eleven rays of the second dorsal, pointed. Ventrals small, of six rays, 
first and second with filaments, second as long as from snout to dorsal, bases 
widely separate. Caudal pedicel slender; fin narrow, ending in a blunt 
point or rounded. 
Seales sinall, covering body and head, very small on the snout. Lateral 
line eight scales from the dorsal, interrupted and difficult to trace or obso- 
lete in the hinder two thirds of the length. On the head the mucous cavi- 
ties are large, and the largest glands of the series lie on the top between the 
orbits. 
Nine pyloric appendages. 
Muscular portions reddish brown, snout darker, blackish on the branchio- 
stegal rays, lips, belly, bases of ventrals, axils of pectorals, hinder angle of 
second dorsal, extremity of caudal and lower half of anal. Dorsal light, 
pectorals and outer halves of ventrals lighter. Scales on sides of head and 
abdomen silvery, those of the breast bronzed. 
Distinguished from Phyciculus nematopus Gilb., by a greater number of 
rays in the dorsal and a smaller number in the ventrals, and from P. rastrel- 
liger by the longer dorsal and the smaller ventrals. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude, Depth. Temperature, Bottom. 
3353 266) 54 Ns 80° 34’ W. 695 fathoms 39° F. Gn. M. 
3355 TP OLOM ING 80° 55’ W. 182 a 54:1° FF. Bk. G. Sh. 
3385 T3236" Ne 79° 16’ W. 286 ef 45.9° F. Gn. M. 
3387 7° 40’ N. 79° 17’ 50” W. 127 56.2° F. Fue. gy. S. 
3391 7° 33! 40 N. 79° 43! 20" W. 153 ss 55.8° F. Gu. M. 
Phyciculus rastrelliger. 
Phyciculus rastrelliger Gilb., 1890, P. U. S. Mus., XIII, 113. 
Plate LXX XII. fig. 2, Lat. Syst. 
Br. r. 7; D. 8, 54-58; A. 58-63; V. 7; P. 26-27; Ll. 99-105; Ltr. 
8 + 25. 
Rather stout, thick and massive anteriorly, as broad as deep forward, 
compressed, tapering and slender backward, snout to end of body cavity not 
twice as long as the head, depth near one sixth of the total length. Head 
one fourth of the entire length, as broad as deep posteriorly, wider than 
