BREGMACEROS LONGIPES. 10 J 



On some specimens there are nine rays in tlie first dorsal; one has eight 

 brancliiostegal rays on one side. 



Station. Latituilo. Longitude. Depth. Tcnipornturo. Bottom. 



3:355 7° 12' :2()" N. 80° 55' W. 18:2 lallioms 5-1.1° K. Bk. G. Sli. ■ 



3385 7° 3-2' 36" N. 79° IC W. 2SG " ^5.9° F. On. M. 



3386 7° 33' 12" N. 79° 17' 15" W. 242 " 48° F. Fne. gy. S. 



3396 7°32'N. 78° 36' 30" W. 259 " 47.4° F. ' Hid. gy. M.S. 



3397 7°33'N. 78° 34' 20" W. 85 " 57.3° F. Stf.gn. M. brk. 



Bregmaceros longipes sp. n. 



Plate XLIII. fys. 6-0. 



Br. r. 7 ; D. L 18 + 10 + 19 (I, 44-47) ; A. 19 + 10 + 19 (44-47) ; V. 

 6 ; P. 16 ; LI. 60-62 ; Ltr. 10. 



Body somewhat compressed, depth about one seventh of the length to 

 the base of the caudal, changing but little until near the end of the dorsal. 

 Head about one fifth of the length without the caudal, narrower than deep, 

 width not far from three fourths of the depth, upper outline resembling the 

 lower, crown convex. Snout little more than half as long as the eye, equal 

 the width of the interorbital space, very blunt, rounded from all sides, lower 

 jaw as long as the upper. Mouth large, hardly extending backward of a 

 vertical through the middle of the eye, jaws equal. Teeth small, subconicai, 

 short, sharp, slightly hooked, in a single series on each jaw and toward each 

 side of the vomer (two or three teeth). Eye large, one third as long as the 

 head, nearly twice the length of the snout. Gills four, a slit behind the 

 fourth ; gill rakers short. No pseudobranchite. 



First dorsal ray isolated, immediately behind the skull, reaching back to 

 the next ray, which is one length of the head backward of the bases of the 

 pectorals, oppcsite tlie origin of the anal fin. The second dorsal, as it may 

 be called, is made up of three sections, the first of sixteen to eighteen ra^'s is 

 separated from the third by about ten short slender rays. Tlie third section 

 extends almost to the caudal short rays. The anal also, like the dorsal 

 opposed to it, contains three sections, the median, consisting of ten short 

 rays. Ventrals long, prolonged in a filament reaching little backward of 

 the front end of the second section of the anal fin, of six rays, the anterior 

 three of which are longest, the posterior three short, originating below the 

 preoperculum. A fold at each side of the belly from the shoulders to the 

 forward portion of the anal forms a trough to receive the ventrals. Caudal 

 short, notched. 



