2730 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



Color uniform black. (Murray.) To this description Goode & Bean add 

 from the same specimen: "Anal opposite second dorsal, the 4 median 

 caudal rays being much larger than the others and bifid; pectorals small, 

 above the gill opening; the upper jaw is formed by the intermaxillaries, 

 and is armed, together with the lower jaw, with a series of teeth of mod- 

 erate size, which can be depressed as in Lophius. The skin is thickly 

 covered with minute embedded conical spines ; the eyes are very small and 

 are placed high upon the middle of the head." Mid- Atlantic, in very deep 

 water; 2 specimens known, the type in 2,400 fathoms, taken between the 

 Canary and Cape Verde islands, the second (26159) in 372 fathoms off the 

 coast of Rhode Island in the Gulf Stream. (ovpavotinoTtoe,, star-gazing, 

 from the upturned eyes.) 



Ceratiat uranoscopus, MUBBAY, in "Wyville Thompson, The Atlantic, II, 67, fig. 20, 1878, 

 mid-Atlantic, between Canary and Cape Verde Islands in 2,400 fathoms ; GUNTHEB, 

 Challenger Report, xxn, 54, pi. 11, fig. C, 1887. 



Mancalias uranoscopus, GILL, Proc. TJ. S. ISTat. Mus. 1878, 228 ; GOODE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 1880,469; JOBDAN & GiLBEBT, Synopsis, 848, 1883; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthy- 

 ology, 490, 1896. 



3111. MAXCALIAS SHUFELDTI (Gill). 



Maxillary the length from gill opening to caudal base ; intermaxillary 

 3^ times in this length. Form more slender than that figured by Giinther, 

 with 4 rays in the dorsal, and apparently 15 in pectoral. There are no 

 vomerines; intermaxillary and mandible armed with a narrowband of 

 depressible teeth of various lengths. The skin with a fine granular 

 appearance and everywhere covered with minute prickles. The caruncles 

 only 2 in number and situated as in Mancalias uranoscopus, as figured in 

 the Challenger fishes. Length of dorsal spine, without the joint bearing 

 the pear-shaped appendage, equaling distance from gill opening to root 

 of tail ; the joint bearing the appendage is f of this distance ; in Mancalias 

 uranoscopus (No. 26159) the first dorsal, without the joint bearing the ap- 

 pendage, contains the distance from the gill opening to the root of the 

 tail 1J times. The joint containing the appendage is | as long as the dis- 

 tance from the gill opening to root of tail. Dermal caruncles distant 

 from the dorsal a space equal to of distance from the gill opening to root 

 of tail. In M. shufeldti the caruncles are placed at a distance from the 

 dorsal a space contained 4 times in the distance from the gill opening 

 to the root of the tail. In the specimens described by Goode & Bean as 

 Mancalias uranoscopus (No. 26159), the length 3J inches, the length of the 

 maxillary is of length from gill opening to root of tail, and the inter- 

 maxillary 3| times in same distance. Teeth in jaws depressible, in narrow 

 bands, and of unequal size ; voiner toothless. Two small caruncles not 

 far from front of dorsal fin, and instead of being placed opposite each 

 other, according to the usual arrangement, one is placed behind the other. 

 Skin covered with minute granules or papilhe, each one surmounted by a 

 slender prickle, as in Typlilopsaras. The pectoral of the individual de- 

 scribed contains 15 rays. The pectorals of T. shufeldti are imperfect. 

 (Goode & Bean.) Gulf Stream, off the coast of southern New England; 



