Jordan and Evermann . Fishes of North A met ica , 2545 



2915. ANTIMORA MICBOLEPIS, Bean. 



Head about 4 in total length with caudal; depth 5f without caudal ; 

 eye 4 in head, nearly equal to snout. D. 4 or 5-51 ; A. 41 ; barbel very 

 slender, 2 in eye ; gill rakers short, slender, 4 + 11. Maxillary reaching to 

 nearly below posterior edge of eye; longest ray of first dorsal about \ as 

 long as head ; anal deeply einargiriate, beginning under twentieth ray of 

 second dorsal; second ventral ray 1 in head. Scales very small, about 

 9 rows between origin of second dorsal and lateral line, and about 130 in 

 lateral line. Color olivaceous, deeper on opercles and branchiostegal 

 membranes and on inside of mouth. Oif Queen Charlotte Islands. Several 

 specimens taken by the Albatross at different stations in Bering Sea, at 

 depths of 350 and 351 fathoms, and off the coasts of the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands and California, at depths of 1,588 and 455 fathoms. One large speci- 

 men, from off Bogoslof Island, has the filamentous ray of. first dorsal % 

 length of head, and the eye is shorter than the snout, (jutnpoc;, small; 

 s, scale.) 



Antimora microlepis, BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 38, off Cape St. James, Queen 

 Charlotte Island, at Albatross Station 2860, in 876 fathoms (Type, No. 45361) ; GIL- 

 BERT, Kept. TJ. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 456 and 473; JORDAN & GILBERT, Kept. Fur 

 Seal Invest., 1898. 



985. URALEPTUS, Costa. 



TTraleptus, COSTA, Archiv fur Naturgeah. 1858, 87 (maraldi). 

 Gadella, LOWE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1843, 91 (gracilis). 



Body elongate, compressed, and tapering posteriorly, covered with small 

 scales. A separate caudal; 2 dorsal fins and 1 anal; ventral fins narrow, 

 with flat base, composed of 6 rays. Upper and lower jaw with an outer 

 series of strong curved teeth; vomerine and palatine teeth none; chin 

 without barbel. Branchiostegals 7. Deep waters of the Atlantic, (ovpd, 

 tail; Xsrtrog, slender.) 



2916. URALEPTUS MARALDI (Risso). 



Head 4 ; depth 6. Head rather thick, its greatest width equal to its 

 height, which is somewhat more than \ its length ; cleft; of mouth oblique, 

 wide, the maxillary extending to below posterior margin of orbit ; lower 

 jaw received within the upper, but both nearly equal in length anteriorly, 

 each armed with a series of rather large, curved, widely set teeth; another 

 series of small teeth within the outer in the upper jaw. Snout rather 

 broad, obtusely rounder, scarcely longer than eye, which is 4 in head; 

 interorbital space emarginate on each side of upper part of orbit, its 

 width somewhat more than diameter of eye. Nap.e broad, scarcely ele- 

 vated, with a spine on each side pointing outwards and covered by skin. 

 Operculum small, with a slender horizontal spine posteriorly, the part 

 below the spine being emarginate; gill membranes united below the 

 throat by a rather narrow cutaneous bridge, not attached to the isthmus; 

 gill openings wide; gills 4, a slit behind the fourth; pseudobranchiaB 

 glandular. Trunk rather low; tail tapering into a very narrow band; 



