Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2133 



extensively free at tip ; lower lobe of pectoral containing 8 or 9 rays ; dorsal 

 beginning behind gill opening at a distance equaling diameter of eye. 

 Skin exceedingly soft, thick, and lax, in alcoholic specimens forming folds 

 on head and body and concealing the rays of the fins. Color uniform white 

 in spirits. Closely related to Careproctus spectrum, Bean, from the same 

 region, differing in the much larger sucking disk and the narrower gill 

 slit, the latter confined to area above base of pectorals, its anterior mar- 

 gin formed of the broadly and evenly rounded opercular lobe. Length 

 3 inches. Bristol Bay, Alaska, in deep water. (0do>ar, a spectre.) 



Careproctus phasrna, GILBERT, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 443, Bristol Bay, Alaska, 

 at Albatross Stations 3254 and 3256, in 46 and 49 fathoms. 



2463. CAREPROCTUS SPECTRUM, Bean. 



Head 4; depth 4; eye 3. D. 52; A. 47; ventral disk small, as long 

 as eye. Mouth large, the maxilla extending to about below the mid- 

 dle of eye. Pectoral reaching to above anal origin; dorsal beginning 

 over the axil of pectoral. Color along back of some examples light 

 brown, elsewhere uniformly pale. Length of type 3^ inches. Twenty- 

 six specimens were obtained, July 31, 1888, between Unga and Nagai 

 islands. (Bean.) Garman refers this species to the synonymy of Care- 

 proctus gelatinosuSj which is probably not correct, (spectrum, spectre.) 



Careproctus spectrum, BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 40, between Unga and Nagai 

 islands, 55 10' N., 160 18' W., at Albatross Station 2848, in no fathoms. 



2464. CAREPROCTUS REIXHARDI (Kroyer). 



Head 4|; depth 5|; eye 5 to 6. D. 54; A. 45; C. 12; P. 32. Body semi- 

 transparent, covered with viscid skin. Head short and globular. Caudal 

 fin very slender, joined to the dorsal and anal; mouth nearly horizontal; 

 lower jaw scarcely projecting. Ventral disk little larger than eye. Pec- 

 toral deeply emarginate, nearly as long as head, reaching anal, the lower 

 rays exserted, appearing as a series of short twisted filaments. Distance 

 from ventral disk to vent not more than diameter of eye ; head with con- 

 spicuous mucous pores. Color pale reddish gray, unmarked. (Collett,) 



Mr. Garnian adds to this: Body translucent, jelly-like; skin lax, viscid; 

 teeth simple; ventral disk very small, situated far forward, almost hidden 

 by the anterior portions of the pectorals ; vent near the disk, about mid- 

 way from snout to anal; tail long, slender, tapering to a point; caudal 

 continuous with dorsal and anal ; fin rays soft, slender ; pectorals semicir- 

 cular, below the head, beginning far in front and close together near the 

 symphysis of the lower jaw, first 8 or 10 rays projecting, larger median 

 portion with short ones, upper elongate; eyes comparatively large, more 

 than as long as the head, which latter is to -J of the total length. Only 

 1 pair of nostrils was detected, and they were not prolonged in tubes. 

 Color pale reddish gray, or whitish; no bands or marks. An Arctic, deep- 

 sea form, descending to 700 fathoms. Known from Greenland, Jan May en, 

 and Beereu Island. (Named for Professor J. Reinhardt, of the University of 

 Copenhagen, who wrote largely on the fauna of Greenland.) 



