310 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
nape to internarial region. Snout short, nearly one seventh of the head, 
equal to the width of the interorbital space, little longer than the eye, not 
varying greatly from one third of the mouth-cleft, subpyramidal, shovel- 
shaped at the tip. Nostrils near the edge of the lip ; anterior tubular, near 
the end of the snout; posterior nearer the eye, with a shorter and smaller 
tube. Teeth small, larger forward, acicular, in two series on each jaw and 
in a single series along the shaft of the vomer. The anterior upper teeth 
form an angular transverse series, in front of the lower jaws, that is sepa- 
rated from the other teeth by a notch below the forward nostril. A group 
of several begins the series on the vomerine shaft. Several of the foremost 
teeth resemble canines. Lower jaws shorter than the upper. Tongue 
small. Eye large, three fourths as long as the snout, two sevenths as long 
as the mouth, nearly one third of the length of the head, situated above the 
middle of the mouth cleft, pupil horizontally elongate. Gill openings wide, 
more than twice the width of the base of the pectoral, separated from one 
another below by a space of less than the width of the opening, nearly 
vertical but lower angles farther backward. 
Dorsal origin over the posterior fourth of the pectoral, distant from the 
gill openings less than one third of the length of the head; dorsal rays 
weak, like those of the anal received into a groove at their bases formed 
of folds of the skin, Anal origin below the eighty-first ray of the dorsal, 
deeper than the dorsal but like the latter hidden in a groove. Tip of the 
tail finless for about one length of the orbit. Pectorals medium, two 
sevenths as long as the head. In cases the fins are very low. Vent below 
the seventy-seventh and end of body chamber below the ninety-eighth 
dorsal ray. 
Brown, darker on the upper portions; tip of tail, fins, and throat little 
lighter. 
On young specimens the whole body is lighter in color, and the fins are 
less developed. A female measuring sixteen inches in length contains 
mature eggs. Largest specimen twenty-two inches long. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3386 SRY PHIRI TOS SZ Wie 242 fathoms 48° F. Fne. gy. 8. 
3389 7° 16’ 45” N. 79° 56’ 30” W. PAO) 48.8 F. Gn. M. 
3391 7° 33! 40" N. 79° 43’ 20" W. 153 55.8 F. Gn. M. 
In the subdivisions of the genus this species should be placed in Cryptop- 
tcrus Kaup, near C. puncticeps Kaup from the Caribbean Sea, its closest ally. 
