254 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
fourth; lamine longer than the rakers; rakers six plus twenty-one on the 
front edge of the first arch, longest not half as long as the eye. Pseudo- 
branchiw well developed, of about twenty lamine. Tongue large, free. 
Vent between the ventrals, a short distance backward of their bases, mid- 
way between the eye and the anal fin. 
First ray of the dorsal longest, more than half as long as the head, about 
the length of the snout farther back than the first ray of the pectorals, 
above the axil of the ventrals. Anal origin two and one fourth lengths of 
the head from the end of the snout, midway from the back of the eye to the 
end of the tail. Adipose dorsal above the eighth and the ninth rays of the 
anal, at the beginning of the posterior third of the entire length. Pectorals 
narrow, elongate, three fourths as long as the head, reaching as far backward 
as the dorsal, and farther than the ventrals. Caudal deeply forked. 
Seales hard, convex, glossy, marked with fine concentric striz, subcarin- 
ate on the back. Lateral line prominent, nearly straight from the upper 
edge of the opercle to the base of the caudal. 
Stomach filled with small fishes and crustacea; nine pyloric cxca. 
Largest specimen seven inches in length. 
Olivaceous, darker on the upper half and below the belly; edges of 
scales lighter, giving the appearance of tranverse streaks; pectorals dark, 
lighter at the bases; dorsal blackish, lighter in the middle; adipose fin light; 
ventrals and anal dark, with light extremities; inside of mouth white ; 
linings of gullet, gill chamber, and abdomen black; cheeks more or less 
silvery. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3385 TY CEA CRONE 79° 16’ W. 286 fathoms 45.9° F. Gn. M. 
3386 72°33! 12! N. TOM italia gw sie 242 « 48° F. Fne. gy. 8. 
3389 Wo 16) 45! IN. 79° 56’ 30” W. PANO) © 93 48.8° I. Gn. M. 
Scopelengys dispar sp. n. 
Plate LIV. figs. 2-2d. 
Brorss: Dot AsA2 Te Vers). Ps: 
The outlines of this species closely resemble those of Scopelengys tristis, 
described and figured by Aleock, 1890; so much so that the most obvious 
differences appear in the numbers of rays in the dorsal and the anal fins. 
Body compressed, greatest depth about one fourth of the length from the 
