138 Director's Annual Report. 



Color in alcohol : body brown, lighter on caudal peduncle, 

 darker, almost black, on head, bluish white on belly, "olor and 

 markings greatly obscured by a blue film, which is probably 

 coagulated mucus. Posterior third of body with three rows of 

 very dark bro'^ fjSPf;ts below the lateral line, and two rows above it. 

 Each membra .t of spinous dorsal with two vertical rows of dark 

 brown spots. Soft dorsal with rows of dark brown dashes and 

 dots running diagouall}' backwards on the membranes. Anal with 

 three longitudinal rows of dark brown spots ; free tips of rays 

 whitish. Caudal and pectoral colorless. 



Here described from two specimens, one 116 mm. long, the 

 other 144 mm. long. B. P. B. Mus. No. 2456 is the type. 



2457. Bntomacrodus gibbifrons (Quoy & Gaim.). 



2458. Bntomacrodus sealei.'° New .species. 



D. XII-16 or 17 ; A. 17 ; P. 13 ; C. 12 ; head 5 in total length; 

 depth 6.75 ; eye equals caudal peduncle, 3.40 in head. Eye situa- 

 ted very high up ; interorbital space narrow, .50 in eye. Mouth 

 inferior, wddth of cleft .50 length of head. Teeth very minute, 

 forming a comb-like band in each jaw ; lower jaw with two small 

 posterior canines. No crest on head; tentacles on nape very 

 small and very close together, hardly as long as width of inter- 

 orbital space ; tentacle over eye comparatively stout, triangular, 

 with two hair-like filaments on inner side of tentacle ; length .66 

 diameter of eye ; anterior nostril with fleshy tube, from upper side 

 of which extends a stout tentacle, the upper half divided into five 

 filaments. 



Lateral line straight in anterior portion, curving downward 

 beyond pectoral, and ending on median line, between spinous and 

 soft dorsals. 



Dorsals separate ; spines of first dorsal almost uniform in 

 height, last two or three somewdiat lower than the others; spines 

 about 2.50 in head; membrane incised about .66 of length of 

 spines; base of soft dorsal shorter than that of s])inous dorsal, fin 

 ending at beginning of caudal peduncle ; highest anteriorh-, where 

 rays are about .50 length of head ; membrane incised deeply, leav- 

 ing tips of rays free. Length of anal .^2> of total length; rays of 

 anal of uniform length, their height same as soft dorsal ; mem- 



'"Iii honnr of Mr. Alviii Stale, of the Uishop Mu.seuni .staff. 



