46 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



the caudal, as broad as high, anteriorly wider than deep. Snout rather 

 large, as long as the orbit, broad and somewhat truncate when viewed from 

 above, acute as seen from the side, the extremity being the lower jaw 

 extended forward of the upper. Month protractile, of medium width ; cleft 

 rising forward ; maxillary nearly reaching a vertical from the hind border 

 of the orbit, obliquely rounded on the end, three fourths as wide as the eye, 

 bent downward behind the intermaxillary. Teeth small, in comparatively 

 wide viUiform bands on the jaws, in narrower ones on the palatines, and in 

 a V-shaped group on the vomer. Tongue long, narrow, pointed, toothless. 

 Eye large, prominent, hardly as long as the snout, less than one fourth of 

 the length of the head. Nostrils small, widely separated ; anterior tubular, 

 at the lip ; posterior immediately forward of the orbit. Interorbital space 

 convex, width equal to two thirds of the orbital length. Operculum with 

 three somewhat hidden and drooping spines, median strongest. Preopercle 

 curved and finely serrated along the middle of its hind edge. Siibopercle 

 elongate, thin, flexible, extending back of the opercle in the long opercular 

 flap. Flap rather wide, reaching above the base of the pectoral. Gill 

 openings wide ; membranes not united, free from the isthmus. Gill rakers 

 slender, three plus nine, with four rudiments at each end of the series. 

 Pseudobranchiae well developed. Suprabranchial gland subtriangular, 

 grooved in the middle. 



Hinder extremities of the fins acute. Dorsal originating little backward 

 of the axils of the pectorals, outline descending toward the end of the 

 spinous portion, soft rays longer and increasing in length backward, longest 

 ray filamentary, two thirds as long as the head, and reaching the base of 

 the caudal. Anal origin below the fifth of the soft rays of the dorsal. 

 Pectorals narrow, little longer than the ventrals. Ventrals small, close 

 together, inserted below the bases of the pectorals. Caudal deep, lobes 

 sharp, notch one third of the length of the fin, rounded. 



Sc-ales small, ctenoid, longitudinally striate, covering body, head, bases of 

 the fins, and, to a considerable extent, the fin rays ; those of the flanks 

 nearly twice as long as wide. Lateral line complete, rising to within four 

 scales of the fifth dorsal spine, thence gradually descending till not quite 

 reaching the middle of the caudal peduncle. Four pyloric cseca. Longest 

 specimen seven and one fourth inches. 



Red in life ; with a band of brown from each oya to the end of the snout, 

 with a narrow white (or blue) band from the suljorbital to the pectorals. 



