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numerous, from four to six. Each of the smaller scattered spots is sur- 
rounded by a ring of black pigment that shows best where the skin has 
been rubbed. There are sixty-seven of the hexagonal areas between the 
humerus and the caudal, and nine between the median line of the back and 
that of the belly. 
Dorsal origin nearly one length of the head forward of the base of the 
caudal, above the third ray of the anal; base ending above the eighteenth 
anal ray. The bases of caudal and dorsal are separated, by a space of the 
length of the orbit; the space between the bases of anal and caudal is about 
half as long. Caudal forked, with seven short rays above the base and 
three below. Ventrals as long as the mouth, narrow, of five rays, longest 
reaching to the vent, bases distant from the anal one length of its base. 
Pectorals not differing much in size from the ventrals, of six rays. Though 
two is the most common number of tentacles at the end of the barbel 
instances of one more or less are not rare: ina single lot from a particular 
locality there are three forms, one with one, another with two and a third 
with three tentacles. 
Dark brown or blackish, belly black, fins lighter. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth, Temperature. Bottom. 
3393 7216) be. 80° 34° -W. 695 fathoms 39° F. Gn. M. 
3358 6° 30’ N. 81° 44’ W. SOD as 40.2° F. Gn. S. 
3361 6° 10’ N. 83° 6’ W. VA 36.6° F, Gn. Oz. 
3362 52 560 Ne 85° 10’ 30” W. ON are 36.8° F. Gn. M.S. rky, 
3370 5° 36’ 40” N. 86° 56’ 50” W. 134 = 54.8° F. Rks. and 8. 
3383 MDL N, To DieWi- 18325“ 36° F. Gn. glob. Oz. 
3385 12°32) 367 Ny 79° 16’ W. 286) 45.9° F. Gn. M. 
3388 7 OAS 79° 48’ W. TGS ss 36.2° F. Gn. glob. Oz. 
3414 10° 14’ N.. 96° 28’ W. 2232 *« 35.87 F, Gn. M. 
Stomias atriventer sp. n. 
Plate LVI. fig. 4. 
Brre los Deloe Ay 10s WV .05) PAG: 
Elongate, slender, somewhat compressed, depth one twelfth and length 
of head one tenth of the distance from the snout to the base of the caudal. 
Eye large, width equal to that of the interorbital space or to the length of 
the snout, one fourth as long as the jaws, little less than one fourth as long 
as the head, located immediately in front of a vertical through the middle of 
the upper jaw. Mouth large, upper jaw about four times as long as the eye. 
Teeth hooked, fang-like; each intermaxillary with five teeth, anterior 
