BREGMACEROS LONGIPES. 191 
On some specimens there are nine rays in the first dorsal; one has eight 
branchiostegal rays on one side. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom, 
3355, 7° 12 20” N. 80° 55’ W. 182 fathoms 54.1° FB. Bk. G. Sh. 
3385 eOeoG ae Ne 79° 16’ W. 286 se 45.9° BF, Gn. M. 
3386 PO BBY TI? Asis HO on Teel/e Wie 242 fs 48° F. Fne. gy. 8. 
3396 Meroe Ne 782 367.30 W. 259 ss 47.4° BF. Hyd. gy. M.S. 
3397 7° 33’ N. 78° 34’ 20” W. Sais 57.3° EF. Stf. gn. M. brk. 
Bregmaceros longipes sp. n. 
Plate XLII, figs. 6-9. 
Br. r. 7; D. I, 18 + 10 + 19 (1, 44-47); A. 19-+ i0-+ 19 (44-47); V. 
6; P. 16; Li. 60-62; Ltr. 10. 
Body somewhat compressed, depth about one seventh of the length to 
the base of the caudal, changing but little until near the end of the dorsal. 
Head about one fifth of the length without the caudal, narrower than deep, 
width not far from three fourths of the depth, upper outline resembling the 
lower, crown convex. Snout little more than half as long as the eye, equal 
the width of the interorbital space, very blunt, rounded from all sides, lower 
jaw as long as the upper. Mouth large, hardly extending backward of a 
vertical through the middle of the eye, jaws equal. Teeth small, subconical, 
short, sharp, slightly hooked, in a single series on each jaw and toward each 
side of the vomer (two or three teeth). Eye large, one third as long as the 
head, nearly twice the length of the snout. Gills four, a slit behind the 
fourth; gill rakers short. No pseudobranchie. 
First dorsal ray isolated, immediately behind the skull, reaching back to 
the next ray, which is one length of the head backward of the bases of the 
pectorals, opposite the origin of the anal fin. The second dorsal, as it may 
be called, is made up of three sections, the first of sixteen to eighteen rays is 
separated from the third by about ten short slender rays. The third section 
extends almost to the caudal short rays. The anal also, like the dorsal 
opposed to it, contains three sections, the median, consisting of ten short 
rays. Ventrals long, prolonged in a filament: reaching little backward of 
the front end of the second section of the anal fin, of six rays, the anterior 
three of which are longest, the posterior three short, originating below the 
preoperculum, A fold at each side of the belly from the shoulders to the 
forward portion of the anal forms a trough to receive the ventrals. Caudal 
short, notched. 
