178 BULLETIN 3G, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Teeth f^- Vertebra, C. 7; D. 14^ L. 15; Ca. 27=G3. Skull like that of 

 C. heavisidel, but the pterygoid region coutracted at the base; the X)al- 

 atiue and pterygoid bones long. 



Rahitaf.—^ew Zealand. 



CEPIIALORIIYNCHUS EUTROPIA (Gray). 



(Plate 33, fig. 2.) 



Exterior unknown. 



Teeth, f*. Skull larger than that of C. heavisidei, which it closely re- 

 sembles. Length of rostrum exceeding oue-lialf the total length of the 

 skull. Pterygoid bones long, not widely separated in the median line, 

 their inner free margins parallel in the proximal half. Vomer termi- 

 natingnearthemiddleof therostrum. Temporal fossoe moderate, squared, 

 i. e., about as deep as long. 



Measurements of the skull. — (U. S. National Museum, No. 21167. ?Chili.) 

 Total length, 34.3™ ; length of rostrum, 18.7"" ; breadth of rostrum at the 

 base, 7.6""; at its middle, 6.1""; breadth of the intermaxillfe at the same 

 point, 2.5™; breadth between orbits, 13.9™; length of temporal fossa, 

 6.7"" ; depth of temporal fossa, 5.6"". 



Habitat. — Coast of Chili. 



11. NEOMERIS Gray. 



External and cranial characters like PJiocwiia, bat the dorsal fin 

 absent, being replaced by a number rows of small rounded tubercles. 

 Teeth, ^^ to !^. Vertebra?, 63. Color black. 



' 15 19 ' 



NEOMEEIS PHOCiENOIDES (Cuvier). 

 (Plate 34, figs. 1 and 2.) 



Snout rounded; head very convex, rising posteriorly high to the dor- 

 sal surface. Back with a longitudinal band of spinous tubercles on the 

 vertebral area, beginning nearly opposite the root of the pectoral, 

 widening to 1.5 inches about the middle, and again contracting and end- 

 ing narrowly opposite or in line with the vent. No dorsal fin. Pecto- 

 ral subfalcate. (Murray.) 



Color black throughout, except that there is a purplish-red iiatch on 

 the upper lip and one on the throat (? sometimes absent). 



Teeth, ^. VertebrfE, 63. Skull small. Eostrum very short and 

 broad; its length about one-third the total length of the skull, and its 

 breadth about equal to its length.* Intermaxilla? very broad distally, 

 little, or not at all expanded proximally; very high in front of the 

 nares. Vomer visible on the palate near the extremity of the rostrum. 



* The rostrum is longer and narrower in Sclilegel's specimen from Japan. 



