Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2501 



pairs of lateral ridges also bearing spines, the lateral ridges sometimes 

 extending the whole width of scales, sometimes confined to their basal por- 

 tion ; marginal spines longest ; axil of pectoral naked, its base anteriorly 

 with small cycloid scales ; a naked, much depressed, elliptical area between 

 bases of ventrals in all specimens ; second dorsal spine smooth, weak, little 

 exceeding length of soft rays, equaling length of snout and orbit ; base of 

 first dorsal 1|. in interspace between dorsals, Avhich is 2 in head; distance 

 from front of anal to snout equaling \ total length ; ventral-s with the 

 outer ray produced, about reaching front of anal ; pectorals reaching beyond 

 anal \ length of head; ventrals with 7 rays; pectorals with 15 to 17 rays. 

 Color light olive brown, dusted with coarse black specks ; axil of pec- 

 torals, belly, ventrals, and branchiostegal membranes blue black ; lower 

 side of head dusky; mouth anteriorly, including tongue and \ of palate, 

 white, its posterior part and most of lining of gill cavity jet-black; inner 

 lining of cheeks abruptly white; lower part of iris silvery; peritoneum 

 silvery, with coarse dusky specks ; vertical fins dusky, the anterior por- 

 tion of anal black. Coast of southern California. Many specimens, the 

 longest 12 inches long, from Albatross Station 3015, in 145 fathoms. (Gil- 

 bert.) (<?K<i0?7, spade; oi/iig, face.) 



Macrurus (Ccelorhynchus) scaphopsis, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 115, Albatross 

 Station 3015, coast of southern California, in 145 fathoms. 



1008. TRACHONURUS, Giinther. 



Trachonurus, GUNTHER, Challenger Report, Deep-Sea Fishes, xxir, 124, 1887 (villosus). 



Scales not imbricated, separated by furrows, and densely covered with 

 sharp spinules, so that the animal seems villous to the touch; dorsal spine 

 smooth; dorsal much lower than anal; teeth in both jaws in villiform 

 bands; snout obtuse, the mouth subinferior; suborbital ridge little 

 developed. This genus is distinguished from Ccclorhynchus by the indis- 

 tinct squamation. (rpaxv$, rough; ovpd, tail.) 



2968. TRACHOMJRUS SULCATUS (Goocle & Bean). 



Head 7* in total length; depth about 9|; eye 3f in head; snout 4 to 4|. 

 D. II, 8 or 9, the second of numerous low rays; A. 120; V. 7; P. 13; scales 

 7-175 or more 33. Barbel 2 to 2 in eye. Body elongate, rapidly con- 

 tracted behind the abdomen; the tail long and whip-like. Scales mode- 

 rate, strongly armed, each with 8 to 10 spinelets, irregularly placed, less 

 numerous in the young, which feel bristly to the touch, separated by wide 

 deep furrows; armature of head similar to that of body, but the scales 

 upon snout, cheeks, and chin have very feeble spines. Interorbital area 

 nearly flat, its length equaling diameter of eye or about 3 in head ; post- 

 orbital part of head as long as eye; snout short, obtuse, scarcely over- 

 hanging the mouth ; nostrils somewhat above level of middle of eye, the 

 anterior one nearly upon the dorsal outline. Upper jaw with 2 series of 

 teeth in villiform bands, the outer series slightly enlarged ; teeth of lower 

 jaw in a single series; maxillary reaching to vertical through hind mar- 

 gin of pupil in adult, shorter in younger individuals; length of upper jaw, 



