204 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
narrow villiform bands on the jaws, outer series little enlarged forward. 
Barbel slender, nearly as long as the eye. Nine gill rakers on the first 
arch, rudimentary, each being a short tubercle with several small spines. 
Gill laminz short. Origin of first dorsal above that of the pectoral; first 
spine short; second spine slender, with spinules distant from one another, 
including the long filament nearly five sixths as long as the head, the 
spinous portion being only about half of this length. Distance between 
the dorsals equal to the length of the first. Second scarcely developed 
anteriorly, feeble throughout. Anal much better developed than the 
second dorsal and originating very little farther forward; anterior eleven 
or twelve of the anal rays below the abdominal chamber. Vent below 
the interspace between the dorsals, near the first anal ray. Ventrals 
small, outer ray with a long filament which reaches to the seventh ray 
of the anal, origin forward of that of the pectoral, or below the hind 
edge of the opercle. Pectorals small, elongate, the filament of the upper 
ray extending below the origin of the second dorsal. Scales small, thin, 
deciduous, with concentric strix; five scales in a row from the lateral line 
to the base of the first dorsal or thirty-one in a series from this dorsal to 
the anal. The short first dorsal separates this species from its nearest 
allies on this coast. 
Cheeks, flanks, abdomen, and linings of mouth and body black; muscular 
portions from the nape backward reddish brown or flesh color, the scales 
being lost. Over the mucous chambers of the head the color is very 
light; possibly in life the color of the muscular tracts was darker and red 
or purple-tinted. 
Described specimen nine inches in total length. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom, 
3360 Be lef INE 82° 05’ W. 1672 fathoms 36.4° F. Fne. bk. dk. gn. 8. 
3374 2° 35/ N. 83° 53’ W. 1823“ 36.4° F. Gnu. Oz. 
Macrurus carminifer sp. n. 
Plate XLVI, fig. 2. 
Br. r. 6; D. 10 + 89-102; A. 96-105; V. 8; P. 21; Ltr. 30. 
Elongate and compressed, slender in the caudal region; depth near 
one sixth of the total length. From body to tail the taper, in the post 
abdominal section, is not so abrupt as in either M. Uiolepis or M. anguliceps. 
Head less compressed than the body; two elevenths of the total, subconical. 
