116 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



by inembnine ; caudal elong-ate, half as long as the head, narrow, of nine 

 rays, pointed. Pectoral width equal to three fourths of the length of the 

 head, longest ray, at the upper edge of the fin, equal to two fifths of the 

 total length of the specimen ; fin in tliree portions, of which the upper con- 

 tains thirteen rays, shortening from the uppermost, the middle contains four 

 shorter widely separated rays, forming an interspace, and the lower, at the 

 sides of the disk, contains four inde^iendent rays of which the third and 

 fourth, provided with long filaments, are nearly three tenths of the total 

 length of the specimen. The rays are more rigid than those of the species 

 of Paraliparis in the collection ; they end in very slender and flexible 

 extremities. 



Intense black, uniform over head, body, and fins. 



Total lentirth three and tliree fourths inches. 



Paraliparis flmbriatus. 



Paraliparis Jimbriatus Garraan, 1892, Discoboli, p. 9. 

 Flate D, fig. 3 ; Plate XXIX. fig. 1. 



D. 49; A. 45; V. 0, a rudimentary pelvis; P. 24. 



Greatly compressed behind the body chamber, depth one seventh of 

 the total length. Head short, two elevenths of the total, five sixths as 

 broad as long, flattened on the crown, broadly arched from nape to snout, 

 steep on the sides. Nape broad but not high. Snout short, nearly as 

 long as the eye, as seen from above broadly rounded in front, depth much 

 less than the width. Mouth wide; maxillary reaching a vertical behind 

 the orbit, lower jaws included. Teeth slender, in moderate numbers, 

 simple, acuminate, in bands of several series. Eye medium, one fourth as 

 long as the head, longer than the snout, length equal to two thirds of 

 the interorbital space. Body chamber shorter than the head. Epicoracoid 

 long and slender. Hinder angle of the operculum a strong sharp spine. 

 Distance from the snout to the first ray of the dorsal fin four seventeenths 

 of the total. First anal ray below the ninth ray of the dorsal. Vertical 

 fins confluent. Caudal region narrow, deep ; caudal fin acuminate. Pec- 

 toral broad, without a gap between upper and lower rays, but notched 



