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Macrourus albatrossus, new species 

 Plate IV, Figure 2 

 A single specimen (No. 8345, American Museum of Natural History) 

 from station 5692, approximate latitude 31°, west-southwest of San Diego 

 in 1070 fathoms, is clearly different from our other species of Macrourus, 

 apparently a representative of a deeper water species. It is not in the 

 best state of preservation, and, although we cannot match it with the 

 description of any known form, we would hesitate to describe it as new 

 were it not that a very satisfactory description can be drawn up with the 

 aid of a plaster cast made of it when caught. 



Head, 5% in total length; depth, 6}{o> Eye, snout and interorbital equal, 3% in 

 head; maxillary, 2%; ventral, including filamentous ray, apparently 1; depth at 

 origin 2nd dorsal, 2. Mouth to snout 2 in eye; base of first dorsal 2% in dorsal inter- 

 space. First dorsal with 10 soft rays; anal 101-105. 



Orbit impinging on upper profile, its rim slightly raised; interorbital flat; low 

 median ridge on snout ending in a slight knob; suborbital ridge low and rounded 

 ending in a slight knob on side of snout; snout short, broad, blunt; a short low ridge 

 on head above posterior margin of each eye. Height of dorsal slightly exceeding eye 

 and snout; length of pectoral about the same. Origin of first dorsal slightly behind 

 and origin of ventral slightly before origin of pectoral. Second dorsal very low. Depth 

 of body equal to the distance from front of mouth to edge of opsrcle. Scales ridged, 

 the ridges low, about five to a scale on the back. 



Named for the good ship 'Albatross.' 



Lionurus liolepis Gilbert 



Numerous specimens representing various stations as follows: 

 5675, 5676, 5682, 5683, 5688, 5697, from north of Point Conception, 

 California, to Cape San Lucas, Lower California, at depths of from 

 284 to 645 fathoms. 



Color, fresh, bluish black (5682). 



Embassichthys bathibius (Gilbert) 

 Plate IV, Figure 3 

 Four large specimens from depths of 440 to 659 fathoms. 

 Stations 5694, 5696, 5697, 5699, south of Monterey to the Santa Barbara 

 Islands, California. 



From station 5696, 440 fathoms, north of Pt. Conception, Cali- 

 fornia, there is also a juvenal individual 2K inches total length. This is 

 more slender than the adults, depth 2.5in length. 

 Color, fresh, black with gray mottling. 



