LABICHTHYS BOWERSII. 323 
Station. Latitude, Longitude. Depth. Temperature, Bottom. 
3392 72 530 Ni. 79° 40 W. 1270 fathoms 36.4° F. Hard. 
3393 2 GYAN 79° 36’ W. 1020 ee 36.8° F. Gn. M. 
3388 72716) NE 79° 48' W. 1GSiee ass 36.2° F. Gn. glob. Oz. 
3381 4° 56’ N. 80° 52’ 30” W. 1772 cs 35:80 Bs Gn. M. 
3376 32 9 ON. 82° 8’ W. 1132 s 36.3° F. Gy. glob. Oz. 
3371 5° 26/ 20” N. 86° 55’ W. 770 Ws) 39° F, Glob. Oz. 
3370 52 36! 407 IN. 86° 56’ 50” W. 134 of 54.8° F. Rks. and S. 
3361 6° 10’ N. 83° 6’ W. 1471 & 36.6° F. Gn. Oz. 
3360 Geal7ioNe 82° 5’ W. 1672 ss 36.4° F. Fne. bk. dk. gn. 8. 
‘© Off Guaymas, 50 miles south.” “ Surface to 700 fathoms.” 
Labichthys Bowersii sp. n. 
Plate LXIV. fig. 1. 
Brors9} Di 252)-7A. 234 P15); C26. 
Very long and narrow; head nearly one eighth of the total, moderately 
broad and flattened on the crown, rising rather gradually from the snout 
to the top, and not so abruptly as in Nemichthys fronto, in length equalling 
one and one fourth times the distance from the gill opening to the vent. 
Shout greatly elongate, slender, from the tip to the eye equal to two and 
one half times the length of the balance of the head from the front edge of 
the orbit to the gill opening, jaws curving from one another near the end, 
lower jaw shorter. Nostrils close together, near the eye; anterior near 
the jaw with a short tube; posterior nearer the upper part of the eye. 
Mouth wide, cleft little backward of the eye. Teeth very small, in pave- 
ments or broad bands on jaws and vomer, very sharp, hooking backward, 
vomerine band ending below the forward part of the eye. Apparently 
there are but nine branchiostegal rays, though the condition of the specimen 
is such as to raise question whether the series is entire. Eye small, one 
twelfth as long as the snout, one eighteenth as long as the head, prominent. 
Gill openings as wide as the eye, extending over the lower two thirds of 
the bases of the pectorals, separated on the breast by a space of less than 
half the width of an opening. 
Lateral canal with a single series of rather large pores opening directly 
outward. 
Dorsal fin about two diameters of the eye farther backward than the 
bases of the pectorals, much lower than the anal, represented on the 
specimens at hand by a series of short spines from which the extremities 
have been carried away. First ray of the anal below the twenty-fourth ray 
