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the first dorsal and the lateral line. The head is covered with 

 similar radiated scales, but irregular as regards size and ar- 

 rangement ; lower limb of the prteoperculum scaly. 

 Brownish black. 

 OfFIuosima. 



Macrurus parallelus. 

 1 D. 10. V. 7. 



Snout much produced, subtrihedral, pointed, nearly twice 

 as long as the large eye. Scales with five or even seven 

 spiny ridges, which are nearly parallel to one another, and of 

 which the middle one is the strongest, terminating in a more 

 or less strongly projecting spine. Head covered all over with 

 irregular, spiny, tubercle-like scales, of which those along the 

 infraorbital crest and along two lines on each side of the 

 crown of the head are the strongest. There are five scales in 

 a transverse series between the first dorsal and the lateral line, 

 No scaleless fossa on the temple. Outer ventral ray produced 

 into a short filament. 



Oif Inosima. 



CorypJicenoides longifiUs. 

 1 D. 13. A. 9. 



Snout as in a GacluSj swollen, obtuse, not projecting beyond 

 the mouth, the jaws being equal. Eye rather large, but 

 shorter than the snout, the length of which equals the width 

 of the interorbital space. ^louth very wide, extending nearly 

 to below the hind margin of the eye. Teeth of the outer series 

 in the upper jaw much stronger than the others; those of the 

 lower strong, in a single series. Barbel minute. Prgeoper- 

 culum with the hind margin not excised, with the angle 

 rounded, and both limbs scaly. 



Scales rather thin and small, with about five feeble radiating 

 keels. There are thirteen or fourteen scales in a transverse 

 series between the first dorsal and the lateral line. The 

 second dorsal spine is feeble, somewhat produced, obscurely 

 denticulated in front. The second dorsal fin commences im- 

 mediately behind the first. Pectoral much prolonged, as long 

 as the head. The outer ventral ray produced into an exceed- 

 ingly long stiff filartient. Brownish black. 



South of Yeddo. 



Coryphcenoides altipinnis. 

 1 D. 12. Y. 9. 



The snout is rather short, slightly projecting beyond the 

 mouth, with a prominent tubercle in the middle, l^ya large, 



