200 BULLETIN OF THE 



rays are mutilated). The ventral is inserted almost under the pectoral, but 

 very slightly in advance ; its distance from the snout is less than the length 

 of its longest ray, which is prolonged in a filament which extends to the base 

 of the ISth ray of the anal fin. 



Eadial formula : D. I, IX, 113 ; A. 118 ; P. 20 ; V. 9 ; B. VI. 



Station. N. Lat. W. Long. Fathoms. Specimens. 



3U8 41° 24' 45" 65° 35' 30" 1242 1 



317 31° 57' 78° 18' 35" 333 1 juv. appar- 



ently of this species. 

 Length of adult, 481 millimeters ; of young, about 25 millimeters. 



Station. N. Lat. W. Long. Fathoms. Specimens. 



325 33° 35' 20" 76° 647 2 juv., and very 



[rotten, probably belonging to the above species. 



BROTULID^. 



BARATEEODEMUS, new genus. 



Diagnosis. — Body brotuliform, much compressed; head considerably com- 

 pressed with mouth moderate (in the type species extending to the vertical 

 through the middle of the eye). Eye moderate. Head spineless, except a short 

 flattened spine at the upper angle of the operculum. Snout long, projecting 

 far beyond the tip of the upper jaw, its extremity much swollen. Java nearly 

 equal in front. Teeth minute in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and pala- 

 tines. Barbel none. Anterior pair of nostrils open and situated at the outer 

 angles of the dilated snout, circular, each surrounded with a cluster of mucous 

 tubes. Posterior nostrils over anterior upper margin of orbit. Gill op> 

 wide, membranes not united. Gills four, with a slit behind the fourth : gill 

 lamina moderate in length. Gill rakers also moderate : not numerous. 

 Pseudobranchias absent : a small, separate caudal I'm considerably prolonged. 



Dorsal and anal fins long. Branchiostegals, eight. Body and head covered 

 with small, thin scales, those on the body scarcely imbricated. Lateral line. 

 absent (?). Ventrals reduced each to a single bifid ray, close together, far in 

 front of the pectorals. 



12. Barathrodemus manatinus, new species. 



Two specimens of tins species of Bantikrodenwu, six and a quarter inches 

 iii length) were obtained at Station 325, lat. 33° 35' 20", long. 70°, at a depth 

 of '',17 fathoms. 



Description. — Body much compressed Dorsal and anal outline approach- 

 ing at an equal angle the horizontal axis The height of the body ia oontaini d 



1\ times in its total length without caudal, and s! times with caudal included. 

 Scales -mall ; about 17"> i.>\\ - U tuivn the branchial Opening and the tail : and 



