PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HUBBS. 545 
a’, A conspicuous pearly body in a sheath between the ventrals; mouth notably 
oblique, spinules on scales arranged in quincunx order (LucIGADUS, new 
ULE ETC) ieee eee NE) eee Sept rapes ba IEP nie an eae eee lucifer. 
Three species, atherodon, nigromarginata, and lucifer are sharply 
distinguished from the others, and may serve as the respective types 
of the new subgenera Atherodus,~ Lucigadella, and Lucigadus. 
(Ventrifossa, in reference to the scaleless fossa present in the typical 
species between the ventral fins.) 
Subgenus VENTRIFOSSA Gilbert and Hubbs. 
56. VENTRIFOSSA MACRONEMUS Smith and Radcliffe. 
Macrourus macronemus SMITH and RapciiFFe, Proc.-U. 8S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 
43, 1912, p. 115, pl. 24, fig. 3. 
List of stations. 
Depth Bottom | Number 
za ee Locality. in tempera-| of speci- 
at fathoms. ture. mens. 
ya 
AIO) TSO LINCS teRNLMUZOM ones sao eee Sarton cee eee einai S40) cee aeees 1 
PAaAn Mu olonsea. near Caravans lands). ice sees = eee ee e/a 340 50. 4 Type. 
5528 | Between Siquijonandub oholmsiand sie os. see ase cee aoert= 439 53.3 1 
This species is related most closely to V. misakia, of Japan and the 
east coast of Luzon. 
(macronemus, in reference to the produced outer ventral ray.) 
57. VENTRIFOSSA MISAKIA (Jordan and Gilbert). 
Coryphaenoides misakius JORDAN and GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., 1902 
(1904), p. 611, text fig. 
Lionurus misakius GILBert and Husss,. Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, 1916, 
p. 194. 
Macrourus asper JorpAN and THomPsON, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, pt. 4, 
1914, p. 306, pl. 38, fig. 2 (not Coryphacnoides asper Gtinther). 
A single specimen of this well-marked species, hitherto known only 
from Japan, was: collected during the Philippine cruise; it was 
dredged at Albatross station 5445, off the seutheastern coast of 
Luzon; depth, 383 fathoms; bottom temperature, 44.8° F. 
Dorsal rays, II, 10; ventral rays, 8. 
We compare this specimen in the following table with two, includ- 
ing the type, from Japan. Certain differences are indicated which 
render somewhat doubtful the reference of our specimen to V. 
misakia. The snout is longer; the barbel much longer; the distances 
greater between the anus and the origin of the une! fin and between 
the ventral base and the isthmus. 
