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lower jaw included; maxillary extending to below the middle of the eye, 

 which is equal to the snout, and about 44 in head; suborbital stay and the 

 roughish edge of the preopercle both covered by smooth skin; chin and 

 preorbital with pores; skin everywhere thin, somewhat movable, its sur- 

 face roughened by small blunt warts; dorsal fin continuous, the feeble 

 spines lower than the soft rays ; pectorals barely reaching anal ; caudal 

 long. Color pale, with 3 broad, dusky cross bands on body and fins, 1 on 

 head, 1 through spiuous dorsal and pectoral, and 1 through second dorsal 

 and anal, besides a small band at base of caudal. Length 8 inches. Deep 

 water off coasts of Norway and Rhode Island ; taken by the United States 

 Fish Commission, in the expeditions of the Blake, Fish Hawk, and Albatross. 

 Here described from specimens taken off Rhode Island, (juinpos, small ; 

 GOT/), eye.} 



Cottunculus microps, COLLETT, Norges Fiske, 20, pi. 1, figs. 1-3, 1875, Hasvig, near Ham- 

 merfest, Norway, in 200 fathoms (Coll. Prof. G. P. Sara) ; COLLETT, Meddelelser om 

 Norgrs-Fiski', 1875-78, 1879; COLLETT, Forh. Vid. Selsk., Christiania, 1880, 11 ; COLLETT, 

 Norsk. Nordh. Exped., 18, pi. 1, figs. 5, G ; Xyt. Mag. f. Nattirvid., xvm, 53, 1884; STRUM, 

 Norsk. Vid. Selsk. Skrift. 1880, 75; GOODE, Proc. TJ. S. Nat, Hus. 1880, 470; GOODE & 

 BEAN. Hull. Mus. Comp. Zool., x, 212, 1883; LILLJEBORG, Sverig. ocli. Norg. Fiske, 113; 

 JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 688, 1883 ; GONTHEK, Challenger Report, xxn, 60, pi. 9, 

 tig. A, 1887 ; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 269, figs. 257 and 261, A, B, 1896. 



2361. COTTUNCULUS THOMSONII (Giinther). 



Head 2V; depth 3 to 4; eye 4 in head ; snout 4^; D.VI, 17; A. 13; P. 22; 

 V.I, 3; C. 10. Head and body smooth, scaleless, covered with a tough, 

 lax skin ; length of head nearly extreme length of body, including cau- 

 dal, its greatest height body without caudal; greatest width of head 

 twice length of maxillary ; distance of vent from insertion of anal equals 

 length of maxillary; eye close to dorsal profile; intermaxillary long and 

 slender, slightly more than 3 times in distance from tip of snout to inser- 

 tion of first dorsal, 3 in head; maxillary very slender, except in posterior 

 third, where it is considerably expanded; mandible very stout, posteriorly 

 widened, its length contained nearly 2 times in head. Teeth in broad, 

 villiform bands on intermaxillary and mandible; 2 short, separate, similar 

 bands on vomer; none on palatines. Head armed with blunt spines as in 

 C. microps. Distance of dorsal from tip of snout nearly equal to total 

 length, caudal included; anal fin midway between tip of snout and* end of 

 caudal; length of upper pectoral rays equal to that of postorbital portion 

 of head, its rays diminishing rapidly in size, the lowest being exceedingly 

 short ; distance of ventral from tip of snout of total length without 

 caudal; length of free portion of ventral equals eye. Color light brown, 

 the fins somewhat darker. Northern Atlantic, in deep water. Length 6 

 inches. Specimens obtained by the Blake from Station 306, in 41 32' 50" 

 north latitude, 65 55' west longitude, etc. ; also by the Albatross from Sta- 

 tion 2181, in 39 29' north latitude, 71 46' west longitude, etc., and by the 

 Fish Hawk from Station 1029, in 39 57' 6" north latitude, 69 16' west 

 longitude, etc. (Named for Sir C. Wyville Thompson, Regius professor 

 of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, lirst Director of the 

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