162 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



On one individual the ventral of one side lias but a single ruy, while that 

 of the other side has two. 



Dicrolene pullata sp. n. 



Br. r. 8; D. 103; A. 90; Y. 2 ; P. 17 to 18 + 7; C. 8 ; LI. ca. 170. 



The specimen from which the description is drawn was taken at Station 

 3395. The shape is that of D. nigra; the stronger spine and the fewer free 

 pectoral rays of that species are present with the shorter dorsal of D. 

 flamcntosa. Head four and three fourtlis times in the total length; crown 

 convex. Snout broad, rounded, more than one and one half times as long 

 as the eye. Hinder nostril near the front of the eye ; anterior halfway to 

 the end of the snout, with a groove below and forward to the lip. Lengtli 

 of the eye two thirds of the width of the interorbital space, less than two 

 thirds of the lengtli of the snout, less than one sixth of the length of the 

 head. Mouth wide, cleft half the length of the head ; maxillary reaching 

 backward of the eye one half of tlie ocular diameter, very wide at the end, 

 one third wider than the eye. Tongue rudimentary. Teeth in villiform 

 bands on jaws and palatines. Vomerine group small, one fourth as wide as 

 the eye. Palatine bands curving inward at the forward ends. Gills, rakers, 

 laminte, and membranes as in D. nigra. Ko p.seudobranchia3. Dorsal origin 

 about the width of the eye backward of the axil of the pectorals. Anal 

 origin below the twentieth dorsal ray. Ventrals of two unequal, separated, 

 filamentary rays, about two fifths as long as the head. Pectoral fin with 

 seventeen or eighteen raj-s in the upper part, which is not as long as the 

 head, and seven free rays in the lower section, the longest ray being one 

 and one half times the length of the head. Caudal elongate, slender, of 

 eight rays, united with dor.sal and anal near the base. 



Seventeen inches in total length. 



Uniform black. 



Hardly entitled to more than varietal distinction from the typical D. 

 nigra. 



