ON THE OCCURRliiNCB OF CAULOLEPIS LONGIDENS GILL, 

 ON THE COAST OE (5ALIEOKN1A. 



By Charles Henry Gileert, Pii. D., 



Professor of Zoology, Leland Stanford Junior Uninrsity. 



This peculiar deep-sea IJorycoid has been liitberto known only IVoin 

 the single type specimen taken by the Albatross off' the coast of New 

 Jersey, at a depth of 1,34(» fathoms. A second specimen, which seems 

 to agree in most respects Avith the published descriptions and ligure of 

 the type,' was dredged by t\\e Albatross, April 13, ISDO, at Station 3027 

 (latitude, north 32° 44'; longitude, west IIJ)^ 32'), near ('ortez P.ank, 

 Southern California, at a depth of 77(J fathoms. Compaiing this speci- 

 men with the figure above cited, it was at once apparent that the scales 

 are much larger and h^ss (closely crowded than is there represented. 

 My friend, Mr. Barton A. liean, has kindly reexamined the tyi)e at my 

 retjuest, and states that there are, however, but twelve rows of scales 

 between the dorsal base at origin and the lateral line, counting down- 

 ward and backward, instead of about thirty rows as in the hguie. 

 Mr. Bea,n also states that the scales are more distinct in the type than 

 in the drawing, and appear under a, lens plate-like (that is, sepaiate, 

 not overlapping). With these statements our PaciUc si)ecimen entirely 

 agrees. For comparison, I append the following table of measure- 

 ments of the latter : 

 Length from tip of snout to basct of ciindal inches.. 8. 6 



The following measurements are expressed in hundredths of length: 



Body: 



Greatest depth hundredths.. 50 



Greatest width do 18 



Least height of tail do 10 



Head : 



Greatest length (to tip of preopercular spine) do 40 



Greatest width do 20 



Width intcrorbital area do 12.5 



Length of snout do 11 



Length of upper Jaw do 31.5 



Length of inaudible do 32 



Diameter of orbit do 8.25 



' Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 184, fig. 204. 



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