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longer but shorter than the anal rays. Pectorals nearly 

 equal to height of head. Cleft of mouth reaching behind eye. 

 Ventral surface blackish, back lighter. Length 1445 mm. [Not 

 seen by us]. 



Distribution: North of New Guinea (Gazelle). — Medi- 

 terranean. Southern Atlantic: Madeira, West Coast of Northern 

 Africa (888 M.), Cape Verde Islands (1694 M.); East coast of 

 North America between 31° and 42° N. Lat. in 395 to 

 4332 M. depth. 



3. Serrivomer Gill & Ryder. 



(Gill & Ryder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. VI. (1883) 1884, p. 260). 



Slender, elongate, moderately compressed, tapering from the 

 body to the snout and to the end of the tail. Anus at the 

 end of the first or in the beginning of the second fourth of 

 the length. Origin of dorsal behind that of anal; origin of anal 

 about in the middle between pectorals and origin of dorsal. 

 Vertical fins confluent. Pectorals small, situated rather high. 

 Head rather long, pointed. Eyes situated high. Nostrils conti- 



I'"'g- 159- Scrrivoiiu)- sector Garman. (After Brauek). )/ o.S. 



guous, small, near the eye on the level of its upper margin, 

 the anterior a short tube. Snout pointed, somewhat curved 

 upwards, the jaws diverging '), the lower slightly longer, cleft 

 of mouth reaching behind posterior border of eye. Teeth in 

 the anterior third of the jaws small, compressed and in several 

 rows, in the second third larger, lancet-shaped, depressiblc and 

 in a single row, in the last third small, less compressed. Vomerine 



Les deux premieres n'ont que dcs rayons filamenteux, etroits at fragiles ; la 

 derniere possede, outre les rayons filamenteux, des rayons gros et courts, en acicules." 



This is not in accordance with his figures i (reproduced by us on p. 329) 

 and 6, where the finmembrane is not interrupted in the denticulated part of 

 the dorsal. 



i) See note on page 326. 



