Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2507 



produced and dilated, its length equal to diameter of eye and i length of 

 head. Teeth very fine, villiforiu, in bauds on jaws and palatines, and also 

 present on vomer, though very small, especially upon the rounded, globu- 

 lar process of the angle. Lateral line very indistinct, interrupted, but 

 extending behind the vent at least \ of the way to tip of tail. Dorsal 

 origin nearly in vertical from the axil of the pectoral; ventrals very slen- 

 der, villiform, closely approximate at their roots, and less than i as long 

 as the hend. Color brownish. A specimen was obtained by the Slake off 

 Granada, Station XCIII, at a depth of 291 fathoms. The collateral type 

 was obtained by the Albatross at Station 2374, in lat. 29 11' 30" N., long. 

 85 29' W., at a depth of 26 fathoms. (Goode & Beau.) (Named for Prof. 

 Alexander Agassiz.) 



Dicromita agassizii, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 319, fig. 285, 1896, off Granada, 

 in 291 fathoms (Coll. the Blake) ; Lat. 29 n' 30" N.JLong. 85 29' W., in 26 fathoms. 

 (Coll. Albatross.) (Type in M. C. Z.) 



961. BASSOZETUS, Gill. 



Bathynectes, GUNTHER, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., n, 1878, 20 (compressus) ; name preoccupied 



in Crustacea. 



Bassozetus, GILL, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 59 (normalis) . 

 Bathyonus, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus., vm, 1886, 603 (catena). 



Body compressed, with long tapering tail, covered with deciduous thin 

 scales of moderate size. Bones of the head very soft and cavernous, the 

 upper opercular spine very feeble, ridge-like ; no other armature of the 

 head. Head scaly, except the snout, which is obtusely rounded off, with 

 the jaws equal or nearly equal in front. Mouth very wide ; bauds of villi- 

 form teeth in the jaws, on the vomer, and palatine bones. Barbels none. 

 Eye small ; anterior nostril about midway between the posterior and the 

 extremity of the snout. Vertical fins confluent; ventrals close together, 

 reduced to a pair of simple filaments, and inserted below the rounded angle 

 of the preoperculum. Gills 4, with short gill laminae, but with long stiff 

 gill rakers on the first branchial arch. Pseudobranchias none. Branchi- 

 ostegals 8, Pyloric appendages none, (fidtidcov, for fiaQvs, deep; tyjTSGo, 

 seek.) 



a. Body moderately elongate, the depth 9 to 10 in length ; dorsal rays 116 ; anal 92 to 96. 

 b. Head 6 in length. NORMALIS, 2879. 



bb. Head about 7 in length. COMPRESSUS, 2880. 



aa. Body more elongate, the depth 12 in length ; head 8f ; head with conspicuous, chain- 

 like rows of pores. CATENA, 2881. 

 aaa. Body excessively attenuate, the depth more than 16 times in length : dorsal rays 

 138; anal 115; distance from snout to vent nearly 4 times in body. 



T^ENIA, 2882. 



2879. BASSOZETUS NORMALIS, Gill. 



Head 6 in total length ; eye 4 in snout. D. 116; A. 96. Body much com- 

 pressed, its width in the region of vent not more than of its height, 

 which at the same point is about of the total length; greatest height of 

 body, over the origin of the pectorals, about f the distance from base 

 of pectorals to vent, the vent being about twice as distant from base of 



