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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.44. 
  

  

  apparently 
  free; 
  a 
  broad 
  flap-like 
  appendage 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  

   pylorus; 
  scales 
  persistent; 
  cheeks 
  and 
  opcrcles 
  covered 
  with 
  small 
  

   inconspicuous 
  scales, 
  rest 
  of 
  head 
  naked; 
  lateral 
  line 
  inconspicuous, 
  

   interrupted 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  two 
  parts 
  overlapping 
  the 
  same 
  vertical. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  continuous 
  with 
  the 
  caudal; 
  dorsal 
  posterior 
  in 
  

   its 
  insertion, 
  its 
  distance 
  from 
  tip 
  of 
  snout 
  2.15 
  (2.31 
  in 
  total 
  length) 
  ; 
  

   distance 
  of 
  anal 
  from 
  tip 
  of 
  snout 
  1.92 
  (2.06 
  in 
  total 
  length); 
  caudal 
  

   short, 
  pointed; 
  ventrals 
  absent; 
  pectoral 
  2 
  in 
  head. 
  

  

  Color 
  in 
  alcohol: 
  Clay 
  color, 
  becoming 
  grayish 
  ventrally; 
  area 
  in 
  

   front 
  of 
  vent 
  and 
  median 
  line 
  of 
  belly 
  black; 
  under 
  side 
  of 
  head 
  

   cream 
  buff; 
  fins 
  translucent; 
  peritoneum 
  very 
  dark 
  seal 
  brown. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  C&t. 
  No. 
  74153, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  7.6 
  cm. 
  in 
  length, 
  taken 
  mth 
  

   a 
  beam 
  trawl 
  at 
  station 
  5504 
  (lat. 
  8° 
  35' 
  30" 
  N.; 
  long. 
  124° 
  36' 
  00" 
  

   E.), 
  in 
  Macajalar 
  Bay, 
  Mindanao, 
  at 
  a 
  depth 
  of 
  200 
  fathoms, 
  on 
  a 
  

   bottom 
  of 
  green 
  mud. 
  

  

  A 
  second 
  example, 
  3.2 
  cm. 
  in 
  length, 
  was 
  taken 
  at 
  station 
  5624 
  

   (288 
  fathoms), 
  near 
  Makayan 
  Island. 
  

  

  Genus 
  HEPHTHOCARA 
  Alcock. 
  

  

  HEPHTHOCARA 
  CRASSICEPS 
  Smith 
  and 
  Radcliffe, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Plate 
  17, 
  figs. 
  1 
  and 
  2. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  about 
  140; 
  anal 
  about 
  105; 
  pectorals 
  19. 
  

  

  Head 
  4.85 
  in 
  total 
  length, 
  very 
  large, 
  broad, 
  and 
  deep, 
  its 
  breadth 
  

   about 
  0.75 
  its 
  length, 
  its 
  depth 
  about 
  equal 
  to 
  its 
  length; 
  upper 
  

   surface 
  of 
  snout 
  nearly 
  horizontal, 
  nearly 
  on 
  a 
  level 
  with 
  upper 
  

   margin 
  of 
  eye, 
  from 
  this 
  point 
  the 
  contour 
  line 
  rises 
  very 
  abruptly, 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  head 
  being 
  much 
  inflated; 
  ventral 
  contour 
  line 
  

   rather 
  deeply 
  convex; 
  bones 
  of 
  head 
  thin, 
  smooth, 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  

   thin, 
  scaleless, 
  gelatinous 
  integument 
  ; 
  body 
  compressed, 
  not 
  as 
  deep 
  

   as 
  head, 
  tapering 
  to 
  a 
  long 
  slender 
  filament; 
  eye 
  6.44 
  in 
  head, 
  1.78 
  

   in 
  snout, 
  2.33 
  in 
  interorbital, 
  small, 
  circular, 
  the 
  membrane 
  bones 
  

   surrounding 
  it 
  projecting 
  rather 
  strongly; 
  snout 
  3.62, 
  short, 
  blunt, 
  

   broader 
  than 
  long, 
  depressed; 
  mouth 
  very 
  broad 
  and 
  oblique, 
  lower 
  

   jaw 
  included, 
  its 
  tip 
  coterminous 
  with 
  incised 
  toothless 
  margin 
  of 
  

   upper 
  jaw 
  lying 
  between 
  ends 
  of 
  premaxillaries; 
  maxillary 
  1.87, 
  all 
  

   except 
  the 
  lower 
  posterior 
  margin 
  concealed 
  by 
  suborbital, 
  reaching 
  

   about 
  0.5 
  an 
  eye-diameter 
  beyond 
  vertical 
  from 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  

   eye; 
  a 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  small, 
  unequal 
  teeth 
  with 
  incurved 
  tips 
  on 
  man- 
  

   dible; 
  a 
  broad 
  band 
  of 
  villiform 
  teeth 
  on 
  premaxillaries; 
  teeth 
  on 
  

   vomer 
  and 
  palatines 
  in 
  very 
  narrow 
  bands; 
  nostrils 
  very 
  large 
  and 
  

   conspicuous, 
  the 
  diameter 
  of 
  the 
  aperature 
  of 
  posterior 
  nostril 
  being 
  

   0.5 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  eye; 
  interorbital 
  2.76, 
  broad, 
  flattened; 
  opercle 
  armed 
  

   with 
  a 
  rather 
  weak 
  spine; 
  preopercle 
  unarmed; 
  pseudobranchise 
  

   rudimentary; 
  gill-filaments 
  very 
  short; 
  gill-rakers 
  4-1-17, 
  3 
  near 
  the 
  

   angle 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  eye, 
  the 
  others 
  short, 
  little 
  produced; 
  pyloric 
  

  

  