212 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
longer than the distance across the interorbital space, little longer than the 
distance from the end of the snout to the maxillaries, one third of the 
length of the head. Mouth small, cleft to a vertical from the middle of 
the eye. Teeth very small, subequal, in villiform bands. Barbel small, 
slender, one half as long as the eye. Median rostral ridge hardly rising 
higher than the narial ridges, ending at a line joining the front edges of 
the orbits. Upper edges of the orbits scarcely rising above the forehead. 
Origin of the first dorsal above the axil of the pectoral ; second ray serrate, 
with a filament, nearly three fourths as long as the head; base descending 
rapidly backward. Second dorsal separated from first by less than two 
lengths of the base of the latter, low, feebly developed, widest near mid- 
length. Ventrals small, more than half as long as the head, first ray 
prolonged in a filament, origin a little forward of the bases of the pectorals. 
Pectorals larger than the ventrals, three fourths as long as the head. Vent 
distant from the anal, near the bases of the ventrals. Anal origin farther 
backward than the base of the first dorsal by about the width of two scales. 
Preopereular ridge bent forward in the middle, or rounded backward in 
the lower portion. Occipital crest prominent. Scales rather harsh, with 
longitudinal series of small spines, up to eight or more rows on each scale. 
Spinules on the second spine of the first dorsal less numerous on young 
specimens, absent to some extent near the base. Frequently on very 
young there are two or three spinules in a group near the base of the 
spine separated from the upper ones. 
Black on the abdominal chamber; blackish to reddish brown over the 
muscular portions, shading to lighter over the mucous cavities on the head. 
Distinguished from JZ. convergens by a shorter broader snout and by the 
fin rays; on that species the median rostral angle is sharper. 
Station, Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3394 PAL ANE 79° 35/ W. 511 fathoms 41.8° F. Dk. gn. M, 
3384 To olSOL Ne 79° 14’ W. 458 ‘* 42° FB. Gn. 8. 
3354 7° 9 45 N. 80° 50’ W. 322 *<¢ 46° FP. Gn. M. 
Macrurus anguliceps psp. n. 
Plate G, fig. 1; Plate L, skull; Plate LX XXIII. fig. 2, Lat. Syst. 
Brier 69D: 10,1) 4. Waa Aca. lio Ver atte ile 
Body compressed, slender and whip-like posteriorly, depth two  thir- 
teenths, head one fifth, and snout to anal one third of the total length. 
