188 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



Brown, witli a reddish tint; vortical fins and pectorals blackish ; ventrals 

 whitish. 



Compared with the two species from the Atlantic, L. gracUUpes bears a 

 greater likeness in shape to L. harhatula while in the formula) the approach 

 is greater to L. melaniinmi. 



Phyciculus longipes sp. n. 



Plate XLII. figs. 2, 2 a. 



Br. r. 7 ; D. 10 + 55-63 ; A. 59-63 ; V. 6 ; P. 24-26 ; LI. 96-102 ; Ltr. 

 7-8 + 24. 



Shoulders and head thick and heavy; body much compressed, tapering 

 rapidly behind the abdominal chamber, thin and slender iji the posterior 

 half; depth, nearly equal to the length of the head, less than one fourth of 

 the total length. Head little more than four times in the entire length, as 

 wide as deep, broader than deep in the forward half, flattened beneath, 

 broadly rounded from the shoulders to the snout, depressed on the inter- 

 orbital space. Snout short, shorter than the eye, broad, rounded, blunt. A 

 slender barbel, not as long as the eye. Eye large, prominent, longer than 

 the snout, equal to the interorbital width, less than one fourth as long as the 

 head. Mouth large, cleft reaching to or behind a vertical from the back 

 edge of the eye, maxillary extending one third of the orbital diameter 

 fixrther back. Teeth in villiform bands, absent from vomer and palatines. 

 Nostrils close together, immediately in front of the eye, posterior appearing 

 vertical and narrow, anterior round and not half as large. Gills four, a slit 

 behind the fourth; rakers slender, not half as long as tlie eye, 5 -(- 13 on 

 the outer edge of the first arch. Vent below the axil of the pectoral, half 

 the orbital diameter distant from the anal fin. 



Dorsal and anal moderately deep, their bases separated from the short 

 rays of the caudal by less than one third of the diameter of the eye, longest 

 rays extending to the bases of the longest ravs of the caudal. First dorsal 

 small, base as long as the distance from the middle of the eye to the end of 

 the snout, third or fourth ray longest, half as long as the head, origin above 

 the base of the pectoral. Neither secoml dorsal nor anal is much lower in 



