2 6 THE FISHES OF THE «INGOLF EXPEDITIONS. 



other stations are noted from the northwestern Atlantic (The specimens of l'Hirondelle were taken 

 South of Newfoundland). 



The head, whose length is contained 5 or somewhat more than 6 times in the total length 

 1 lu .]/. Fabricii a little more than 4 times) is obtusely rounded, terminating in a small knob in the 

 point of the snout, but without prominent crests or keels with larger scales. In younger specimens 

 the crests of the head may be as it were indicated and the obtusely rounded snout may assume a 

 little more angular figure. The oral orifice reaches to the middle of the eyes or almost to the ver- 

 tical from their posterior margin in large specimens. The jawteeth are very delicate, placed in a 

 single series. The scales are delicately ciliated, relatively small, but numerous, covering in a very 

 reeular manner the head, the bodv and the tail; the smallest are found on the snout and nearest 

 to tlie eves, and this covering reaches to the protrusile part of the jaw, there being no naked or half 

 naked papillous surface at the lower part of the head. Only the throat and the gill-membrane are 

 naked. The naked spot where the nostrils are placed is not so great as in M. Fabricii. Of the scales 

 it may further be stated, that they are without keels, but densely covered with .spinules without any 

 strong tendency to arrange themselves in transversal rows, but are best said to be arranged in no 

 particular order; the tendency to a serial arrangement is perhaps more distinct in younger individuals. 

 The second dorsal fin, whose anterior rays are very insignificant, begins only at a long distance from 

 the first, about at a line with the points of the pectorals (in younger individuals partly somewhat nearer 

 to the first dorsal), the anal however below or close behind the last rays of the first dorsal, the anus 

 being placed so much forwardly, that there is at most the length of an eye-diameter between the 

 anus and the ventrals. The first ray of the ventrals is very long ( 2 / 3 or 3/. of or, in younger individuals, 

 equal to the length of the head), therefore reaching far out on the anal, whose rays are relatively 

 strong and well developed. The eyes are great, their diameter is equal to or a little smaller than the 

 distance between the orbita and the point of the snout, but commonly much lesser than — z / 3 of — 

 the frontal breadth. The number of rays is D' i-f Ix > P. 16, V. 8; the first dorsal ray is delicately 

 serrated. The barbel is very small, the lateral line very distinct. 



As I have had the opportunity of comparing two half-grown specimens of Macrurus Bairdii 

 Goode & Bean (Oceanic Ichthyology^ p. 393, fig. 335 ) with J/. Stnnnii (rupestris) , I shall — without 

 entering upon a detailed description and perhaps superfluously — observe, that this Northatlantic type 

 is not specifically identical with J/. Stnnnii or founded on younger specimens of this — a suspicion 

 that might perhaps offer itself to an ichthyologist not having this opportunity to an immediate 

 comparison. 



Macrurus (Hymenocephalus) Goodei Gthr. 



1 Oceanic Ichthyology p. 407, fig. 340.) 



T<> this species I refer - - after comparison with two specimens sent from the Museum at 



Washington under the names of Macrurus aspcr and Hymenolaimus Goodei — the first name being 



that, under which the species was first described by Goode and Beau, which name however had 



be withdrawn, Giinther having used it for a Japanese fish — some individuals from the following 



i ties: 



