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The anal is lower than the second dorsal; its distance from the snout (112 mm.) 
is about equal to 4 of the total length. 
The pectoral is inserted under the anterior rays of the first dorsal, and very 
slightly in advance of the origin of the ventral. Its length is more than half 
that of the head.* 
The distance of the ventral from the snout (69 mm.) is contained 5 times in 
the total. This fin is inserted nearly under the base of the pectoral ; the first 
ray is somewhat produced ; f its tip reaches to the fourth ray of the anal fin. 
Radial formula: D. 11. 9, 125; A. 110; V.9; P. 14; B. 7. 
Color, bluish brown, darkest upon head and abdomen, especially in Museum 
specimens. 
Lxxx. Off Martinique. 472 fathoms. “ Blake.” 
34,911. N. Lat. 15° 24’ 40”, W. Long. 68° 31’ 40”. “ Albatross.” 
34,909. 2: 
34,910. N. Lat. 15° 24’ 40”, W. Long. 63° 31’ 40”. i 
34,920. “ « «“ 
34,918. «“ «“ “ 
(2392). 
YLXXx1I. 1 juv. 
(2394). 1 “ 
Neobythites robustus, n. sp. 
The type is from “Blake” Station xcrv., off Moro Castle, Cuba. 250-400 
fathoms. Length, 88 mm. 
With specimen (No. 29,057) from ‘‘ Fish-Hawk ” Station 1043, Lat. 38° 39’, 
Long. 73° 11’, 130 fathoms, as a collateral type. 
Body rather short and deep, its greatest height (19 mm.) nearly 42 in total 
length and about equal to length of head. The interorbital area is convex ; 
its width (6 mm.) is greater than the diameter of the circular eye (5 mm.) 
and 14 times the length of snout (4mm.). The length of the head (19 mm.) 
is about 4 times the diameter of the eye. The mouth is moderate, the max- 
illa extending to the vertical through the posterior margin of the eye, the 
mandible a little beyond, its length (10 mm.) equal to that of postorbital part 
of head. Teeth in villiform bands in the jaws, and on the palatines. Vo- 
merine teeth bunched in a circular patch. Gill-rakers moderate, the longest 
a little more than twice in diameter of eye, four above angle of first arch, 
eleven below. Pseudobranchie rudimentary. Gill-opening wide, the mem- 
brane deeply cleft, behind free from the isthmus. A pair of short flat spines 
* In one of the “ Albatross” specimens the pectoral extends to the vertical 
from the eighth ray of the second dorsal. 
Tt Its length in one of the “ Albatross” specimens is equal to that of the head 
without snout. 
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