THE FISHES OF THE INGOLF > EXPEDITIONS. 



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Station I, at. N. Long. W. fathoms temper, of bottom 



11: 64 34' 31 12' (Denmark Strait) 1300 1 .6 



36: 61 50' 56 21' (Davis Strait) 1435 1 .5 



37: 60 17' 54 03' (Davis Strait, at its mouth) 1715 1 .4 



From the localities enumerated for J/. Goodei by Goode and Bean it will be seen that 

 the species is taken so far south as off Havanna , and that the depths noted are between 154 and 

 1434 fathoms. 



The largest specimens have a length of 325 mm and 310""". Their habitus reminds somewhat 

 of that of the Alalacoccphali. The length of the head is contained 5 times or somewhat more in the 

 total length. The diameter of the eyes is somewhat smaller than the diameter of the front and much 

 smaller than the length of the snout. The head is completely scaled with the exception of two parties 

 back of the anterior margin of the snout and an adjoining part of the lower side of the snout. The 

 branchial membrane and the throat are also naked, but the belly proper is scaled like the rest of the 

 head. The scales may be described as ciliate or lineate-ciliate, delicately ribbed with 6 — 9 scarcely 

 diverging or parallel, low, serrated thorny ribs; the scpiamification therefore makes a striated impression. 

 The intermaxillary teeth are arranged in two rows, the greater ones in the external row; those of the 

 lower jaw are placed in a single row. The foremost (second) dorsal fin ray, whose point in its depressed 

 condition does not reach to the first low ray of the second dorsal, is serrate anteriorly. The first dorsal 

 has its ordinarv place over the ventrals, a little behind the pectorals. The first elongate ray of the 

 pectorals may reach to the anus; the pectorals are not relatively long. The number of the rays are 

 counted thus: D' 11 -(- 9; P. 19; V. 9 — 10. The lateral line is distinct. 



Macrurus ingolfi Ltk. sp. n. 



Of this apparently hitherto undescribed species 2 specimens (270 ,nm long) are at hand from 



Station Lat. N. Long. W. fathoms temp, at bottom 



40: 62 00' 21° 36' (South of Iceland) 845 3 .3 C. 



and one specimen (length: 277 — 340'"™) from each of the following stations: 



Station Lat. N. Long. \V. fathoms temp, at bottom 



11: 64 34' 31 12' (Denmark Strait) 1300 1.6C. 



18: 6i° 44' 30 29' (Southwest of Iceland) 1135 3°-° C. 



64: 62 c 06' i9 c 00' (South of Iceland) 1041 3°.i C. 



83: 62° 25' 28 : 30' (Southwest of Iceland) 912 3 .5 C. 



This species has a considerable likeness with the proceeding species, from which it may be- 

 easily distinguished among other things through the larger eyes, the distinct knobs of the snout and 

 a higher first dorsal. 



The head is contained about 5 times in the total length. The superior or frontal surface of the 

 snout is separated from the inferior or more forwardly directed part by a well developed crest 01 edge, 

 terminating in 3 spinose osseous tubercles, one directly in the middle and one on each sick-, close- 

 before the naked spot, where the nostrils have their place, and continued both above ami below the 



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