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the end of the snout to the intermaxillaries, hardly one fifth of the length 
of the head. Interorbital space deeply concave on the skull, but no doubt 
filled with tissues in life so as to be plane or convex. Suborbital ridge low, 
distinct, rounded, ending at a vertical from the hind border of the orbit. 
Mouth large, reaching below the forward half of the eye. Teeth small, in 
villiform bands, larger in the outer series of the upper jaw. Barbel small, 
nearly half as long as the eye. Occipital crest of the skull high and strong, 
the crest at each side of it lower but distinct. 
Dorsal origin above the base of the pectoral, first spine small, second 
spine long, strong, compressed, without serrations on its forward edge. 
Second dorsal low, weak. Anal well developed, backward of the first 
dorsal about one length of the base of the latter. Ventrals small, inserted 
below the bases of the pectorals or a very little farther back. Scales 
medium, in their exposed portions bearing keels which are so fine as to 
appear smooth to the touch on individuals of two feet in length; those on 
the head apparently thickened, rougher ; five scales in a row from the lateral 
line to the base of the first dorsal. Vent close to the anal fin. No 
pyloric cxca, 
Brownish, darker on the hind borders of the scales, reddish or purple 
tinted in life. 
Certain features on these specimens suggest the possibility of a consid- 
erable metamorphosis in the species; the scales may have been much 
rougher in young stages, and the second spine of the dorsal may have 
possessed serrations or spinules on its forward edge. Filaments probably 
exist on the ventrals and first dorsal. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude, Depth. Temperature, Bottom. 
3407 0° 4’ N. 90° 24’ 30” W. 885 fathoms Sueno Bs Glob. Oz. 
Macrurus barbiger sp. n. 
Plate XLV. figs. 2-2 6. 
Bear eet GAR OS Vids P. 21 > llvcaa ibd: 
This species resembles J/. Uolepis in shape, but has the head more round, 
the cheeks more convex, the snout narrower, and the barbel longer, besides 
which differences there are others in the fins and the colors. Body rather 
massive, moderately compressed, depth three fifths of the length of the 
head, total length two and two thirds times the length of the body cavity ; 
caudal section compressed, slender, filamentary toward the end. Head 
