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and anal fins, and thence in a straight median line to the base of tlie 

 candal. 



Radial formula: 15. 9; D. IG; A. Id; V. 1(>. 



A single specimen (No. 35529, U.S.N.M.), five inches in length, was 

 taken by the Albatross, August 20, 1884, at station 220G, in 39° 35' N. 

 Lat., 71° 24' 30" W. Long., at the depth of 1,043 fathoms. 



CETOMIMUS STOKERI, new species. 

 Plato W^ir, Fig, :i. 



The height of the body is a little more tiian one-fourth of the total 

 length; the length of the head is contained three and one-third times in 

 that of the body. Diameter of the eye contained about eighteen times 

 in the length of the head, and about seven times in that of the snout, the 

 eye being inserted nearer to the dorsal profile than to the J aw, its i^osi- 

 tiouin the vertical being twice as far from the line of the upper jaw as 

 from the dorsal lines, it is nearly in the line of the vertical erected from 

 the middle of the upper jaw to the right angles of its edge. The lower 

 jaw is strongly curved, and iirqjects far beyond the ujiper. The origin 

 of the dorsal fin is a little in advance of that of the anal, which is 

 inserted at a distance from the vent equal to three or four times the 

 diameter of the eye. The dorsal fin is longer than the anal, the termi- 

 nation of the latter being under the fifth ray from the end of the dorsal. 

 They are about equal in height, and the direction of the rays Miien 

 erected is backward, and at an acute angle with the axis of the body. 

 The longest rays are contained about two and one-half times in the 

 length of the head. Pectoral fin is inserted very far down, the lower 

 portion of its peduncle almost on tlie abdominal line; the fin is lanceo- 

 late, and although mutilated, is believed to have been about half as 

 long as the head. The lateral line sweeps in a sinuous curve from a 

 point above the upper angle of tlie gill-opening to a i)oint somewhat in 

 advance of the insertion of tln^ dorsai, and tlieiuie in a straight line to 

 the base of the caudal. A line of mucous [lores on either side of the 

 median dorsal line in advance of tlie dorsal fin. 



Eadial formula: D. 19; A. K;. 



A single specimen (No. 35G34, F.S.N.M.), 42 inches in length, was 

 taken by the Fish Commission steamer Alhatrosn at station 2222, 

 December 5, 1884, in 39° 03' 15" N. Lat., 70° 50' 45" W. Lon., at a depth 

 of 1,535 fathoms. 



This species is provisionally described from a (careful drawing made 

 by Miss M. M. Smith, December 11,1884, under the criticism of Dr. Bean, 

 the type specimen having been inaccessible at the time this study was 

 made. 



The species is named in In^iior of Dr. David Huinpiireys Storer, who 

 died in Ijosfon at the age of eighty years, in September, 1891, in token 

 of our appreciation of the distinguished services of this pioneer in 

 American ichthyology, who began systematic work upon the fauna of 

 the western Atlantic more than half a century ago. 



