Arr. 3. NEW SPECIES OF FISH—WELSH. 9 
Color in alcohol, body and head velvety black with minute white 
granulations, these most abundant along the lower line of photo- 
phores; barbel white, its core punctulated with black, bulb at tip 
and bodies in filaments yellow; vertical fins unpigmented, excepting 
the last few rays of anal and outer rays of caudal, which are banded 
with black at the segments basally; ventral and pectoral rays slightly 
pigmented with black. 
Type.—Cat. No. 84282, U.S.N.M., 69 mm. long, taken with a tow- 
net at Station 10173, 185 miles west from Bermuda, at a depth of 
from 100 to 0 meters. 
One other example, 60 mm. long, taken at Station 10192, 220 miles 
northeast from Great Abaco Island, at a depth of from 1,000 to 0 
meters. This example has a barbel of the same type, but developed 
to a lesser degree. 
(enbarbatus, calling attention to the remarkable barbel.) 
Genus DACTYLOSTOMIAS Garman. 
Dactylostomias GARMAN, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1899, p. 279. 
DACTYLOSTOMIAS DIGITATUS, new species. 
Close to D. ater A. Brauer, but differing therefrom in having a 
much larger eye, lower dorsal and anal counts, higher pectoral count, 
and the different character of the suborbital photophore. Only the 
type taken. 
Station 10171, 255 miles west from Bermuda, 75 to 0 meters, 1 example, 35 mm. 
Dorsal, 14; caudal, 19; anal, 15; ventrals, 9; pectorals, 3 to 4. 
Head 5 (5.82 in total length), long, low, its width 2.40 in its length; 
body somewhat compressed; depth 10 (11.16 in total length); eye 
Fig. 9.—DACTYLOSTOMIAS DIGITATUS, NEW SPECIES. 
large, subovate, lateral, its length 4.28 in head, 1.42 in snout; snout 
acute, projecting; maxillary 1.13, extending about 14 eye diameters 
beyond vertical from posterior margin of eye; barbel long, simple, 
filamentous; teeth in both jaws in a single row, canine, of unequal 
length, with recurved tips; first pair in upper jaw set high, protruding 
through skin of snout; second pair longest, three-fourths diameter of 
