394 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
of the dorsal, fin deeper than the latter. Caudal small, of six rays, con- 
tinuous with dorsal and anal, median rays longest. It is quite possible the 
tail is not quite of its normal length, in which case dorsal and anal will on 
others be found to contain more rays. Pectorals short, moderately broad, of 
fifteen rays, upper ray shorter, stouter, and compressed into a thin keel- 
like upper (forward) edge; bases very obliquely situated, so that the fin is 
carried almost on a horizontal plane with the upper edge forward. 
Uniform black, bands of teeth showing light to white, younger individ- 
uals closely puncticulate with dark. 
The specific name is given in honor of the Hon. George M. Bowers, the 
present head of the United States Fish Commission. 
Station, Latitude. Longitude, Depth. Temperature, Bottom, 
3414 10° 14’ N 96° 28’ W. 2232 fathoms 35.8° F. Gn. M. 
3388 UO? (BANE 79° 48’ W. TGS ines 36.24 By Gn. glob. Oz. 
3361 6° 10’ N. 832) 16) Wis 1471 4s 36.6° F. Gn. Oz. 
Nemichthys fronto sp. n. 
Plate LXV. fig. 1. 
Br. r. 14 (15); D. 365 ca.;, A. 369 ca.5 P. 11. 
Greatly elongated, very slender, compressed, filiform in the tail; snout 
to gill opening nearly one tenth of the total length. Head narrow, with the 
rostrum on a level with the lower part, outline rising over the nostrils and 
orbit, high at the nape, somewhat concave between the eyes, rounded 
toward the sides, narrower at the throat. Snout two thirds as long as the 
head, jaws slender and curving from one another near the end. Eye large, 
about one seventh of the length of the snout or one twelfth of that of the 
head; pupil round. Mouth very wide, cleft to a vertical from the hind 
border of the orbit. Teeth small, flattened or depressed and sharp edged 
on the crown, hooking back toward the gullet, in pavement or bands that 
are more or less exposed at the sides of the mouth, maxillary band reaching 
as far backward as the hinder edge of the eye; vomerine band ending in 
a sharp point below the middle of the eye. Nostrils close together, near 
the eye; anterior with a short tube, in front of the middle of the eye; 
posterior tubeless, in front of the upper portion of the orbit. Corner of 
the angular sharp, but not very prominent. Opercles thin, flexible, hind 
border rounded. Gills four, a slit behind the fourth. Gill openings little 
wider than the eye; membranes united, joined to the isthmus, attached to 
