140 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



Maynea. 



Maynea Cunningham, 1870, Tr. Linn. Soc, XXVII, 471. 



Form approaching that of the Ophklioids. Body compressed, tapering, 

 cavity not half the total length. Head large, rounded ; snout broad and 

 deep. Mouth wide, anterior; jaws equal. Teeth in villiform bands on the 

 jaws, few on vomer and palatines. No barbel on the chin. ' Gill membranes 

 united, joined to the isthmus. Eyes lateral. Nostrils and pores of lateral 

 system small. Vertical fins imited ; pectorals broad ; no ventrals. Scales 

 on the body small, not imbricate ; head naked. 



Maynea bulbiceps sp. n. 



Plate E, fig. 1. 



Br. r. 6; D. 109; A. 89 ; V. ; P. 16. 



Body compressed, tapering, thick anteriorly ; body cavity nearly two 

 fifths of the total length. Head short, nearly as wide as deep, less than one 

 sixth as long us the total, broad at the snout, convex on the crown, swollen 

 on the cheeks, rounded at the mouth, its length two and tliree fourths times 

 in the distance from snout to vent. Snout about three and three fourths 

 times in the length of the head, blunt, broadly rounded at the jaws, convex 

 and prominent on the internarial region. Eye snmll ; orbit twice in the 

 length of the snout, less than twice in the interorbital space. Mouth ante- 

 rior, wide, slightly oblique, descending backward, cleft to a vertical from 

 the anterior edge of the orbit ; maxillary hardly i-eaching as far back- 

 ward as hind edge of orbit; jaws equal,- lips moderately thick. Teeth 

 small, short but stout, unequal in sizes, in villiform bands on the jaws, in a 

 single series of about four on each palatine, one or two on eacli side of the 

 vomer; band on upper jaw narrow. Width of gill-cleft half the length of 

 the head. Gill membranes united, broadly joined to the isthmus, which is 

 as wide as the cleft. 



Near the end of the snout toward each side there is a small tubular nos- 

 tril, in front of which there is a small pore. Mucous pores very small, 

 chambers not so noticeable as on Ly codes. Vertical fins united. Dorsal 

 origin one diameter of the eye or more farther backward than the base of 

 the pectoral, distant from the eye about the length of the head. Anal 

 origin below the twentieth ray of the dorsal fin. Caudal small, not distinct, 



