ART. 3. NEW SPECIES OF FISH—WELSH. 5 
Genus EUSTOMIAS Vaillant. 
Eustomias VAILLANT, Travailleur et Talisman, 1888, p. 112. 
EUSTOMIAS PROXIMUS, new species. 
This species is very close to FE. obscurus Vaillant, from which it 
differs in the larger number of dorsal and anal rays, the character of 
the ventrals and pectorals, and the color of the skin. 
Six examples, as follows: 
Station 10169 C, 270 miles southeast from Cape Hatteras, 50 to 0 meters, 2 
examples, 83 and 80 mm. 
Station 10180, 30 miles southwest from Bermuda (type)), 75 to 0 meters, 1 example, 
132 mm. 
Station 10186, 270 miles southwest from Bermuda, 85 to0 meters, 1 example, 
75 mm. 
Station 10209, 40 miles north from Little Bahama Bank, 100 to 0 meters, 1 example, 
98 mm. 
Station 10211, 90 miles north from Great Abaco Island, 100 to 0 meters, 1 example, 
101 mm. 
Dorsal, 29; caudal, 19; anal, 43; ventral, 7; pectoral, 3. 
Head 8.33 (8.80 in total length), compressed, its breadth 2.5 in its 
length, profile concave; body long, cylindrical, compressed poste- 
Fic. 3.—EUSTOMIAS PROXIMUS, NEW SPECIES. 
riorly; greatest depth 18 (18.9 in total length); eye 5, lateral, circular; 
snout, 2.73, pointed; mouth large, lower jaw projecting; maxillary 
1.15, extending 13 eye diameters beyond vertical from posterior 
margin of eye; barbel long, filamentous, its shaft unpigmented, 
terminating in a dark-colored suboblong bulb, slightly constricted 
mesially, from the distal end of which arises a short stalk bearing 
six filaments; of these, one is about 
as long as the bulb, the others about 
one-third shorter; each filament bears 
at its tip a club-shaped, dark-colored 
bulb; teeth in both jaws in a single Fie. 4—rvstommas proxrmus, TIP OF 
row, canine, recurved, of unequ aa 
length, the largest in the upper jaw being the first, second, third, and 
seventh, in the lower jaw the second, third, and sixth; tongue with 
three pairs of strong recurved teeth; vomer and palatines toothless; 
interorbital 3.75, concave; body scaleless. 
A small elongated luminous area close to maxillary behind vertical 
from posterior margin of eye, a similar area beneath lower anterior 
