308 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
General color dark olivaceous; fins with black edges that widen back- 
ward ; lateral line lighter, pores whitish ; pectoral fins yellowish toward the 
outer extremity ; linings of the branchial chamber black, those of the 
mouth and of the abdomen blackish. This coloration differs from that of 
Gilbert's specimen in having no white margin to dorsal and anal ; it may be 
that the two forms do not belong in the same species. 
Station, Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature, Bottom. 
3389 7° 16’ 45” N, 79° 56’ 30” W. 210 fathoms 48.8° F. Gn. M. 
CONGROSOMA gen. n. 
Body elongate, compressed, caudal portion much the longer. Head 
small, shorter than the trunk. Snout short, thick, blunt. Eyes large, 
lateral; pupil round. Mouth medium, cleft below more than half the eye. 
Teeth small, subconical, subequal, in broad bands of which those on the 
upper jaws and the vomerines are not separated in front. Lips well devel- 
oped. Vertical fins continuous; caudal small; dorsal origin at a distance 
behind the bases of the pectorals. Lateral system strongly developed on 
body and head; pores large. Vent far in advance of the mid length. 
This is Congermureena with the head from the eyes forward more 
shortened, with the upper bands of teeth more closely joined anteriorly, 
with the dorsal originating farther backward, and with the vent farther 
forward of the midlength. 
Congrosoma Evermanni sp. n. 
Plate LXIL fig. 1. 
Br. r. 18; D. 824; A. 265; P. 14; C. 10; Pores 130 ca. 
Body elongate, slender, compressed ; depth one seventeenth of the total 
length, retained comparatively well toward the caudal. Head subconical, 
convex on the crown, blunt anteriorly. From the snout to the gill opening 
is one sixth ot the entire length, and from the snout to the vent is three 
eighths. Snout short, projecting beyond the lower jaw, bluntly rounded, 
less than one fifth of the length of the head, one and one half times as long 
as the eye. Anterior nostrils on the lower aspect of the snout, with short 
tubes, posterior near the eye, subround, with prominent edges. Eye large, 
in length equal to the width of the interorbital space, two thirds as long as 
the snout, two thirteenths as long as the head. Lips of moderate thickness. 
