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Body elongate, thick, covered with rather large deciduous scales. Head 

 very large, entirely covered with scales ; eyes very large ; teeth all villi- 

 form, without canines ; no teeth on vomer or palatines. Branchiostegals 

 7; opercular bones not serrated nor spinous, the opercle ending in 2 feeble 

 points ; preopercle with prominent rounded or striated angle. Dorsals 2, 

 well separated, the first with 7 spines; anal spines 2. Caudal forked. 

 Soft fins more or less scaly ; pyloric coaca numerous. Deep sea fishes of 

 the Atlantic and Mediterranean^ f km, above; -yuvia, angle, the back 

 angulated.) 



1509. EPIGONUS OCCIDENTALIS, Goode & Bean. 



Head 3; depth 7. D. VII-9; A. II, 9; scales 4-55-8. Least height of 

 tail equal to width of interorbital space. Eye nearly half length of 

 head and 7 in body. Snout about i eye; maxillary reaching somewhat 

 beyond anterior margin of orbit, its length half that of head without 

 snout; premaxillary short and thin, its length about equal to that of 

 snout, its connection with the tip of maxillary ligamentous ; groove for 

 premaxillary process naked, narrow, its length twice its width ; a weak 

 spine on the operculurn. Sixteen gill rakers below the angle, the longest 

 about i length of maxillary. Weak villiform teeth in very narrow bands 

 on the jaws; vomer and palatines toothless. Third spine of dorsal 

 longest. Interspace between dorsals as long as the last spine. Base of 

 soft dorsal i as long as head, the longest ray slightly longer than base 

 of fin. Ventral fin i length of head. Color in spirits: Upper parts dark 

 brown ; lower parts light brown ; inside of mouth pale ; trace of a dark 

 band beginning on the snout and continued behind the eye, along the 

 lateral line to the tail. Only one specimen known, secured by the 

 steamer BlaTce off Barbadoes, in 237 fathoms. The species is very readily 

 distinguished from the Mediterranean species (E. telescopium) by its more 

 slender form and its large number of rows of scales. Length 5J inches. 

 (Goode & Bean.) (occidentalis, western.) 



Epigonus occidentalis, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 233, 1895, off Barbadoes. (Coll. 

 Blake.) 



485. CHEILODIPTERUS, Lacdpede. 



Cheilodipterus, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 539, 1802, (saltatrix, macrodon, etc., restricted by 

 CUVIEB & VALENCIENNES, in 1828, to macrodon). 



Chilodipterus, GUNTHER, amended spelling. 



Paramia, BLEEKER, Revision Apogonini, 74, 1874, (macrodon, the name Cheilodipterus being trans- 

 ferred to Pomatomus saltalrix), 



Body oblong, covered with rather large, deciduous scales ; teeth on 

 jaws, vomer, and palatines, some of them in both jaws strong, canine- 

 like; operculum without spine; preopercle with a double margin, the 

 posterior edge serrated ; eye large. Dorsal fins separated, the first of 6 



fits chief characteristics are its globular eyes of extraordinary dimensions, its large and 

 An!?!? ' L P wers of rapid swimming, and a generally vigorous and active constitution, 

 i tnese characteristics are necessary for its defense against the oceanic animals which frequent 

 the marine abysses, where it customarily lives." Bisso. 



