PARALIPARIS GRANDICEPS. 117 



somewhat by the shorter fifth and sixth rays counting from beneath, each 

 ray prolonged in a soft filament. Ventral disk obsolete, but pelvic bones 

 remaining as a pair of thin elements behind the humeral symphysis, Plate 

 XXIX., Fig. 1. These pelvic rudiments occupy a similar position but are 

 closer together than those of P. attemtatus. In the ovary there are fourteen 

 or fifteen eggs as large as the orbit, and among them numerous others 

 much smaller, varying in size from that of a cabbage seed downward. 



Purplish black anteriorly ; shading to greyish near the mid caudal 

 vertebrte and backward. 



Four inches in total leno-th. 



Paraliparis grandiceps sp. 



Plate XXIX. figs. 4-4 e . 



D. ca. 56; A. ca. 42; P. 15, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5. 



The specimen described is very badly preserved. Evidently the species 

 bears considerable i-esemblance in form and proportions to P. hathyhius, 

 characterized by Collett from types secured in the northeastern Atlantic. 

 Body and tail compressed, depth not far from one fifth of the total length. 

 Caudal section thick, deep anteriorly and for some distance back from the 

 body, then decreasing in depth rapidly and becoming thin and slender. 

 Head as broad and deep as long, nearly one sixth of the total length, 

 narrowed somewhat at the snout, subquadrangular in transsection across 

 the orbits, flattened or slightly concave on the crown, swollen on the cheek. 

 Snout blunt, longer than the orbit, a trifle overhanging the mouth. Mouth 

 wide, maxillary extending below the entire orbit. Teeth small, short, 

 robust, blunt, subconical, with broad bases, firmly attached, in one series on 

 each jaw, larger toward the angles of the mouth. Orbit rather large, less 

 than the length of the snout, less than one third of the length of the head. 

 Origin of the dorsal distant from the head about half the length of the 

 latter. Anal origin below the eighteenth ray of the dorsal. The outlines 

 of dorsal and anal are in a measure like those of Liparis Agassizii ; the 

 longest rays occur near three fifths of the distance from snout to caudal, 

 and are not less than two thirds as long as the head. Throughout the 

 length these fins are rather wide. Pectorals wide, the entire width being 



