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Ceratias carunculatus, n. sp. (PI. XI. fig. D). 



D. 1 I I 4. A. 4. C. 8. P. 12. 



This species is rather short, with the upper profile ol)liquely descending towards the 

 front as well as the caudal fin. The branchial opening is midway between the end of the 

 snout and the root of the caudal. Vent a little to the left of the median line of the 

 abdomen. Eye rudimentary. Cleft of the mouth subvertical, not of excessive width. 

 The skin is densely covered with minute prickles of equal size, and pores are scattered 

 irregularly over the trunk and tail. 



The first dorsal spine or tentacle is inserted between the eyes, directed forwards, and 

 having suspended from a very short distal joint a comparatively large lemon-shaped 

 body ; this tentacle scarcely extends beyond the end of the snout. Instead of a second 

 dorsal spine, a soft pear-shaped caruncle is developed, which differs from the two 

 claviform appendages between which it is placed in size only, being about twice as large. 

 Each of these three caruncles has a pore at its top. The other fins do not show any 

 peculiarity. Uniform black. 



Habitat. — South of Yeddo, Station 232 ; depth, 345 fathoms. One specimen, 

 1^ inch long. 



The specimen is figured of twice the natural size. 



A fish shortly characterised in Jordan's Catalogue of the Fishes of North America, 

 p. 138, is closely allied to this species, if not identical with it. 



Cryptopsaras couesii (Gill). Trunk shortened, back longitudinally convex ; basal 

 joint of the anterior spine, concealed and procumbent ; terminal joint elongate, reaching 

 backwards to the dorsal tubercles ; the bulb is pyriform and surmounted by a long whitish 

 filament. A large intermediate globular and a pair of subpeduuculated lateral dorsal 

 appendages near the front of the dorsal fin. D. 4. A. 4. p. 15. The specimen was 

 obtained by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross." The size is not stated. 



Oneirodes, Liitken. 



Head very large, body short and naked. Cleft of the mouth oblique, with depressible 

 teeth, unequal in size, in the jaws. A cephalic and dorsal spine. The soft dorsal and 

 anal fins short. Ventrals none. Gills two and a half. 



