bo 
(SP) 
0 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
The right eye of one specimen has failed to come through the skin; it 
is to be seen in the tissues, with less than half the diameter of the left 
eye and with a minute pupil, directed toward the left, in the ordinary 
situation. 
Specimens of the length of five inches are nearly uniform brown, faintly 
clouded with darker, and are marked with ten to a dozen, or more, blotches 
of black on dorsal and anal, which fins are whitish between and around the 
spots. Anteriorly the blotches are brownish and less distinct. Caudal 
tipped with white, blackish toward the base. Edges of scales darker. On 
young specimens the markings, both the black and the white, are more 
distinct, as also are the edgings of the scales; and there are five or six 
bands of brown, passing more or less directly across the left side, rather 
incomplete or broken anteriorly. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3355 ome NE 80° 55’ W. 182 fathoms byl? 10 Bk. G. Sh. 
3378 3° 58’ 20” N. 81° 36’ W. 112 ce 55.9° F. Brk. Sh. 
3387 7° 40’ N. 79° 17°50" W. 127 56.2° F. Fne. gy. S. 
3389 2 My AIAN 79° 56’ 30” W. 210 ce 48.8° F. Green mud. 
3391 7° 33’ 40” N. 79° 43' 20 W. Gg} 55.8° F. Green mud. 
Symphurus microlepis sp. n. 
Plate LILI. fig. 3. 
D. 101; Ay 91; Li: 1355 Ltr. 58. 
Outlines similar to those of Symphurus atramentatus, but curved rather 
more toward the tail; depth about one fourth and length of head two 
ninths of the total length. Snout short, little longer than the eye, rounded 
in front, villous on the right side. Mouth small, asymmetrical, strongly 
curved. Teeth small, in villiform bands, less numerous on the left side. 
Tubular nostril nearly midway from the eye to the end of the snout, near 
the mouth. Eyes small, prominent, close together, upper slightly advanced 
beyond the lower, length about one sixth of that of the head. Operculum 
with a shallow indentation on the hinder margin. 
Scales very small, ctenoid. 
Dorsal and anal fringed anteriorly; dorsal rays shorter toward the head ; 
dorsal origin above the forward part of the eye; anal origin below the 
eleventh or the twelfth ray of the dorsal; ventral covered by the opercular 
membrane, as long as the snout inclusive of the orbit ; caudal pointed. 
