2 g TIIK 1'ISHES Of THE INGOLG EXPEDITIONS. 



ita. The broadly triangular snout is prolonged fairly over and before the mouth, which is relatively 

 little, the corners of the mouth falling in a line with the anterior margin or the middle of the orbits. 

 Tin ire large, their diameter surpassing the breadth of the front between the eyes. The teeth 



m a fine card in both jaws. The head is scaled with the exception of the gill membrane, the 

 isthmus and its foremost superior margin, and almost the whole lower surface. The naked part of the 

 snout is handsomely embroidered with rows of slime glands. The first dorsal counting n — o rays is 

 singularly high and its longest (second) ray is serrate and as long as the head. The second dorsal 

 ins much forward, its foremost rudimentary rays may be followed until not far from the posterior 

 margin of the first dorsal fin. The pectorals contain 20 rays, and the ventrals, whose external ray 

 tapers to a fine thread and reaches a long stretch beyond the anus have 8 rays. It may also be 

 remarked, that the tail as in other Macrurians is really pointed behind, but in several specimens has 

 a shorter or longer part; but the wound has healed, and on the thus truncated point of the tail 

 is developed a distinct caudal fin, a phenomenon which is also observed in some specimens of the 



ceeding species. The scales show distinct rows of thorns, not however so much projecting as in 

 .1/. Goodei. 



Macrtirus ingolfi 11. sp. differt a M. Goodei pnecipue oculis majoribus, tuberculis rostralibus 

 magis distinctis et pinna dorsali altiore, longitudinem capitis aequante, pinna dorsali secunda usque 

 ad pinnam rlorsalem fere continuata. 



Macrurus (Chalinura) simulus Goode et Bean. 

 (Oceanic Ichthyology* p. 412, fig. 545.) 



Of this species the Ingolf expedition obtained 4 smaller specimens from 



Stat 18: 6i°44'L,at.N., 30 29' Long. \V. (Entrance of Denmark Strait), 1135 fath., temp, at bottom 3 : .o C. 

 Further 2 specimens (280 og i6o mm ) from 



Stat. 83: 6225'Lat. X., 28 30'Long.W. (Denmark Strait), 912 fathoms, temp, at bottom 3 .5 C. 

 and 2 specimens (280 and 330""") from 



Stat. 91: 64 44' Lat. N., 31 Long. W. (Denmark Strait, 1236 fathoms, temp, at bottom 3 .1 C. 



For the determination of this species I have made use of a specimen sent from the Museum 

 at Washington. The head, whose length to the branchial cleft is contained almost 5 to fully 5 times 

 in the total length, is thick with a rather long and obtusely rounded snout. The eyes are small, their 

 diameter being only about a half frontal diameter. The mouth is very large and almost terminal, the 

 snout being almost regularly truncate and only little protruding; the upper jaw wearing a card of teeth 

 whose external teeth are exceedingly the largest, the lower jaw wearing a single row. The first 

 dorsal numbers 11 rays, of which the first is very short and the second long and serrate as in most 

 other Macrurids; the second dorsal begins at some distance from the first, the point of the first 

 dorsal in its depressed state reaching to or a little beyond the beginning of the second. The first ray 

 the ventrals is produced in filiform shape and reaches not a little beyond the anus. The scales 

 are rather small, but distinctly pluricarinate , specially in the head, which else shows some soft and 



