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tliG second dorsal, hindmost rays forming an acnte angle ■which reaches the 

 caudal fin. Pectorals broad, appearing as if obliquely truncate in the upper 

 half of the fin, longest rays below the median, reaching the anal. Ventrals 

 large, broad, reaching the anal, fringed, pointed, fourth ray longest. 

 Caudal nearly as long as the head, of ten long rays and two short ones, 

 longest in the middle. 



Above the middle of the flanks brownish with numerous closely placed 

 transverse streaks of brown, which anteriorly and on the head are broken 

 into small spots, or which in places become vermiculations ; dorsals, pec- 

 torals and caudal with small spots of brown and whitish, forming series on 

 the rays; first dorsal with a larger spot, which may have been bluish 

 surrounded with light color, in the outer half of the fin bet\veen the third 

 and the fourth I'ays. In some cases the fins appear to be thickly freckled 

 with brown and with white. Anal white, with a long band of black near 

 the lower edge ; fringes white. There are indications that the light colors 

 were red to yellowish in life. Lower surfaces white below body and head, 

 3^ellowish backward. Upper lips deep black ; sometimes the black of the 

 sides unites in front, in other cases it is confined to the sides of the mouth. 

 Orbits black in the upper and white in the lower and greater portion. 



BLENNIOIDS. 



The Blennioids represented in the collection are very young ones, taken 

 by the townet, of which the adults probably do not belong with the deep 

 sea fishes. The group enters the bathybial lists through the works of 

 Strom, Collett, Glinther and others, who assign depths of a hundred and 

 fifty fathoms or more to species of Anarrhichas and Chirolophis. 



BLENXIID.E. 

 Entomacrodus cruentatus sp. n. 



Plate L', Fig. 1. 



D. 12 + 15; A. 15; V. 3 (4); P. 12; Vert. U. 



Moderately elongate, compressed, depth three seventeenths of the total 

 length. Head narrow, three fourteenths of the length from snout to end 



