S. Garman — Ichthyological Fauna of the Bermudas. 511 



Brosmophycis Verrillii sp. nov. 



Br. r. 7 ; D. 70 ; A. 50 ; LI. 100 ; Lcr. 23, 



Total length 0.045, length of head 0.0 11, distance from snout to 

 dorsal 0.013, distance from snout to anal 0.02, length from snout to 

 caudal 0,04, depth of body 0.007, length of ventral 0.01, length of 

 eye 0,001, length of snout 0.002, length of pectoral 0.007, and length 

 of maxillar}' 0.005 metres. 



Body moderately robust, compressed behind the head, slender in 

 the caudal pedicel, slightly arched from snout to caudal, greatest 

 depth of body little more than one-sixth of the total length. Head 

 as wide as deep, convex on the crown, arched transversely and lon- 

 gitudinally, depressed forward, convex on the sides, broadly rounded 

 across the end of the snout, one-fourth of the total in length. Snout 

 broad, blunt, twice as long as the eye. Mouth wide, anterior, jaws 

 equal, maxillary nearly half as long as the head, expanded at the 

 end to neai'ly twice the width of the eye, broadly rounded on the 

 hind margin, upper edge concave posteriorly. Teeth in villiform 

 bands on jaws and vomer and in narrow bands on the palatines ; 

 Vomerine band arched forward in the middle, Ej'e small, about one- 

 tenth as long as the head, half as long as the snout, above the mid- 

 dle of the mouth, or slightly farther forward. Operculum with a 

 straight sharp spine at its upper angle ; no other spines on the head. 

 Gill membranes hardly united below the mouth, free from the 

 isthmus. Gill rakers short, compressed, as broad as long, rudiment- 

 ary 2 -f 12, similar on the different arches. Length of body cavity 

 in its entirety nearly twice that of the head. The dorsal and the 

 anal are of moderate depth and are free from the caudal though the 

 base of the hindmost ray in each is very close to the bases of the 

 caudal rays ; the rays in both are shorter forward and longer in the 

 posterior half, toward the caudal ; the hinder angles extend back- 

 ward of the bases of the caudal rays in an acute angle. Dorsal 

 origin above the end of the anterior fourth of the pectoral. Anal 

 origin below the base of the twenty-first ray of the dorsal. Caudal 

 distinct, small, pointed. Pectorals small, pointed, in length equal to 

 depth of body. Ventrals close together at their bases, inserted close 

 behind the humeral symphysis, each a long slender filament. Pores 

 distinct around the mouth, margins slightly produced, anterior pair 

 on lower jaws larger. Lateral line indistinct. Scales of the body 

 small, thin, cycloid, imbricated. Muscular portion of cheek covered 

 by small scales. Anal jDapilla of slight prominence. 



