(ilC) HULLETIN OF THK TTNITKD STATKS FISH CuMMISSKiN. 



ill U'lvaiKc 1)1' pci'torals. « liirli are iiisertt-il lnw; [n-ctorals Vfi'v HleinltT, ami cxtt'inlinii nearly tn iiiiildle 

 of caiiilal |jim1iiiii'1i-: lirst L' dorsal rays ajiiiareiitly spiimus, Init llic tliinl very ilistinetly arliciilatccl: 

 one anal spine, wliieli is eomiiressed ami rather lontc. 



The seales have nearly all fallen. 



Color, head jet-lilaek; trunk, lieinj; jiartly denuded, appears light grayish or lirownisli, hut was 

 liri>lialply lilaek in life, less intense than head; a distinet hiaek bar at base of caudal, lins otherwise light, 

 or only slightly dusky; body cavities lined with black. 



A second specimen. liO mm. long, witliout caudal, agrees with the type in tin-rays, scales, measure- 

 ments, and color. The short median .spine on snout is pre.sent. 



The species was taken at stations Nos. 4005, vicinity of Kanai, 480 to .577 fathoms, and 4I4L', vicinity 

 of Kauai, (V.VJ to .SSI fathoms. 



Caulolepis longidens < iill. 



A single siiecimen, ll'l mm. long, taken at station 41.55, near Bird Island, at a depth of 1.IH4 to 

 1,594 fathoms, agrees clo.sely with the figure and description of the type given by (ioode and Mean 

 (Oceanic Ichthyology, i>. 1S4, fig. 204), and with the description liy (iilbert (cited below) of a sjieci-- 

 men from the coast of California. With the exception of a slightly smaller eye, and a slightly shorter 

 dcirsal and anal (1 less ray in ea(th tin), no differences have been detected. 



< ■,iiil<,l,j,is snljiilitlem i-iariuan (Mem. Mus. Comji. Zool., vol. 24, 1S99, ]i. (10, pi. B), from the l'acili<- 

 coast of Panama, seems to be distinguished by imjiortant characters. According to the figure, the 

 de|ith at front of dorsal is decidedly less than at occiput, and tlie ]u-olile along base of dorsal is nearly 

 straighl; the ventrals are more anteriorly inserted and the s|iace lietween ventrals and anal mucli 

 longer; the jiremaxillary l)one is piroduced jiosteriorly into a long slender process, whicli extends well 

 beyond the broadly rounded end of the maxillary. 



Length from tip of snout to l)ase of caudal 101 mm.; greatest depth of body 50 hundredths of this 

 length; least height of tail 10.5; length of head (to tifi of ]ireo|iercular spine) 38; greatest width of head 

 IS; int<'rcjrbital width 12; length of snout 12; length of maxillary o3; length of mandible ;;:!; diamelci- 

 of orbit 7; distance from tip of snout to dorsal 51; base of dorsal 41; distance from tip <if snoiil to anal 

 74; base of anal 8.5; distance from pectoral to snout Ii7; from ventral to snout 49.5. Dorsal IS; ana! S; 

 pectoral 15; ventral 7; 14 disks along the eonrse of lateral lin<': about 12 scales in an olilii|ae line 

 downward and backward from origin of dorsal lin to lateral line. 



r,uil,il,pi!i liim/UUnsGiU. I'nic. U. S. Nut. Mas., VI, 1.S84, p. 2.W. .\llaiitir cc«ist ef lliu Uiiite.l Stiitos; OilU-rt. IToc V. .s. Nat, 

 Mus., XXI. I.S9S, 5G5, coast of .soutliern California. 



Family FdLVMI.XilD.i;. 



Polymixia berndti, new sjH'cies. I'late 78. 



Ty|>e, LSI) mm. long, from the llomilulu market; cotyjiefroni station 4115, off the northwest coast 

 of Oaiui, depth 195 to 241 fathoms; tyi)e. No. 51607, V . S. \at. Mus. 



Length of head :W hundredth.s of total length without c-audal; diameter of orbit 12; inlcrorbilal 

 width 10; length of snout 7.5; length of maxillary 20; length of barliels 27; dejitli of bo.ly :;:;; least 

 depth of ca\idal peduncle 9; length of pectoral 23; length of vi'utral i:).5; longest ray of upper caudal 

 lobe 24; base of doi-sal 38; length of fifth dorsal spine 8.5; length of first sr>ft dorsal ray 17.5; length of 

 fourth anal spine 8.5; base of anal 18. D. v, 30; A. iv, 17; I'. 10 or 17; V. 7; lateral line wilh 35 or 

 30 pores, 5 scales in a vertical series between lateral line and fiont of dorsal, 13 or 14 between lateral 

 line an<l front of anal. 



Form nmch more slender than in /'. jii/iuiiini (iiinther; snout bluntly rounded, protrmling 

 beyond premaxillary teeth, its apex on a level with nostrils; nostrils small, pore-like, the antericjr 

 slightly larger, located midway Itetween ajiex of snout and front of lU-bit; snout protruding beyond the 

 premaxilla an axial distance about equaling one-sixth its length; snout covere<l with soft integu- 

 ment, in which are ramifications of the sensory canals; barbels reaching to below pecti.rul base. 

 ei|naling length of head anteiior to preoperde; maxillary extending wcdl beyond vertical fn.ni hinder 

 margin of orbit; its sn|i]ilemental bone forms nearly half the extreme width of its ililati-d poslerioi' 

 portion, bi'ing much wider than in /'. jiiiioiin-ii: teeth niimile, arranged as in other species, bul in \ery 



