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just in front of last rays of dorsal ; caudal broad, fan-shaped, on a slen- 

 der peduncle ; the accessory rays numerous and procurrent ; base of pec- 

 torals a little below the axis of body, their outline rounded ; the fin short 

 and small, shorter than head ; ventrals short and small, thoracic, placed 

 a little behind pectorals, with 1 obsolete spine and 5 soft rays, 1 of which 

 is slightly filamentous, the fin 3 in head ; fin rays not beset with spinules. 

 Vent normal, immediately in front of the anal, without papilla. Air 

 bladder wanting. Bones all soft and flexible. Skin not thick and tough, 

 as in Icosteus. but thin and scaled. Color plain brown, paler below, some- 

 what punctulate. Length 7| inches. Deep water off San Francisco, 

 California ; one specimen known. (Named for William N. Lockington, 

 its discoverer, at that time ichthyologist of the California Academy of 

 Sciences.) 



Icichthys lockingtoni, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., in, 1880, 305, deep water off 

 San Francisco; (Coll. W. G. W. Harford); JORDAN & GILBERT. Synopsis, 621, 1883. 



443. SCHEDOPHILUS, Cocco. 



ScJiedophilus, Cocco, Giorn. Innom. Messina, Ann., in, 7, 57, 1834, (medusophagus). 

 Crius, VALENCIENNES, Ichth. Isles Canaries, 43, 1836-1844, (bertheloti). 



Body ovoid, strongly compressed, covered with small, smooth scales, 

 without prickles. Head small, the interorbital space broad. Eye small ; 

 snout obtuse ; margin of preopercle with flexible spines. Mouth moder- 

 ate, oblique, with one row of small teeth ; none on the palate. Gill open- 

 ings wide ; gill rakers long, narrow, wide-set. One dorsal with a few 

 flexible spines in front, beginning at the nape, its rays numerous ; anal 

 similar ; caudal rounded, or slightly emargiuate ; base of vertical fins 

 closely compressed; ventrals small, I, 5. Branchiostegals 7; pseudo- 

 branchiae present. Skeleton extremely soft, as in Icosteus. Open seas, 

 the young found at the surface. Several species recorded, (oxeMaj a raft ; 

 0/tfw, to love.) 



1370. SCHEDOPHILUS MEDUSOPHAGUS, Cocco. 



Head4i; depth 2f; eye 4. D. 40 to 50; A. 25 to 29. Body strongly 

 compressed, elongate, ovoid in shape. Head small, as deep as long. Inter- 

 orbital space convex, broader than diameter of eye, which is situated 

 immediately below the upper profile of head, nearly as long as snout. 

 Snout obtuse, with projecting lower jaw and oblique mouth; mouth of 

 moderate width, the cleft extending to below front margin of eye; max- 

 illary rather narrow, but widening toward its extremity. Teeth minute, 

 implanted in a single series on the sharp edge of jaws ; palate toothless. 

 Preopercular margin armed with short spines, which usually become a 

 little longer on posterior margin; these longer spines have an oblique 

 dorsal direction; interoperculum spinous, the suboperculum less so ; oper- 

 culum membranous, its upper portion shows radiating osseous striae, which 

 project beyond the margin. Gill rakers of the outer branchial arch long, 

 narrow, and rather widely set; gill openings very wide. Dorsal fin com- 

 mencing above root of pectoral and terminating at a short distance from 



