2294 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



horizontal, with lower jaw rnuch the longer; the posterior margin of the 

 maxillary wide, free, and with a long cutaneous flap. Eyes very large, 

 close together, subvertical. Scales large, cycloid, deciduous ; lateral line 

 conspicuous and continuous, descending abruptly behind pectorals, its 

 scales smaller than those of the body adjoining. Teeth acicular, in bands 

 on the jaws, vomer, and palatines, the largest being upon the palatines, 

 the vomer, and upon 2 pads on either side of the symphysis of the maxil- 

 laries. A sharp, short, strong scapular spine. Opercle with 3 feeble, sharp 

 spines, each at the end of a strong feeble ridge; a long, skinny opercular 

 flap extending far beyond the bony portion, and covered with scales. 

 Branchiostegals 6. Gill membranes free from the isthmus, except far in 

 front, where they are united to it, the left-hand flap overlapping the right 

 at the point of junction. Pseudobranchiae present. Gill rakers short. 

 (vif>i, below, i. e., in deep water; MGOJU-)?T??{, dweller.) 



2631. HTPSICOMETES GOBOIDES, Goode. 



Head about 2; depth 7|; orbit 4| in head, or 1^ in snout. D. VI-15 to 

 17; A. 16 to 18; V. I, 5; P. 26; scales 65. Mouth very wide, horizontal, 

 the maxillary, which is expanded spoon-like posteriorly, reaching con- 

 siderably beyond vertical from anterior margin of orbit; eye consid- 

 erably nearer tip of snout than end of flap, and equidistant between 

 tip of snout and tip of uppermost spine of operculum ; entire upper sur- 

 face of head, cheeks, and opercula covered with scales, except upon 

 bony portion of snout; first dorsal fin placed far forward, not far 

 behind vertical from axil of pectoral; interspace between termination of 

 first dorsal and beginning of second equal to diameter of the orbit, this 

 fin composed of 6 spines, the first and second of which are longest, equal 

 to distance from anterior margin of orbit to tip of lower jaw, and tri- 

 angular in form ; origin of second dorsal almost vertical from that of anal, 

 and terminating a little in advance of the latter; second dorsal fin highest 

 in front and low behind; length of caudal peduncle a little less than 

 length of snout ; caudal rounded ; pectoral very broad at base, rounded, 

 extending beyond vent and nearly to vertical from origin of anal ; lower 

 rays branched ; ventrals far apart, horizontal, Trigla-like, composed of 1 

 flexible spine and 5 branched rays, their insertion far forward and far in 

 advance of base of pectorals. Color grayish brown ; lighter and yellowish 

 below. Known only from a very small specimen, in which many of the 

 important characters were not discernible. This specimen (No. 26007, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus.) was taken by the Fish Hawlc from Station 871, in 40 02' 54" 

 N. lat., 70 23' 40" W. Ion., at a depth of 115 fathoms, and is much con- 

 tracted and distorted from immersion in strong alcohol. (Goode. ) ( GoUus; 

 eido$, resemblance.) 



Hypticometes goboidet, GOODE, Proc. TJ. S.Nat. Mus. 1880,348, lat. 40, 02', 54" N., Ion. 70 

 23' 40" W., in 115 fathoms (Coll. Fish Hawk) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 808, 1883; 

 GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 290, fig. 263, 1896. 



