204 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



narrow villiform bands on the jaws, outer series little enlarged forward. 

 Barbel slender, nearly as long as the eye. Nine gill rakers on the first 

 arch, rudimentary, each being a short tubercle with several small spines. 

 Gill lamina) short. Origin of first dorsal above that of the pectoral; first 

 spine short; second spine slender, with spinules distant from one another, 

 including the long filament nearly five sixths as long as the head, the 

 spinous portion being only about half of this length. Distance between 

 the dorsals equal to the length of the first. Second scarcely developed 

 anteriorly, feeble throughout. Anal much better developed than the 

 second dorsal and originating very little farther foi'ward ; anterior eleven 

 or twelve of the anal rays below the abdominal chamber. Vent below 

 the interspace between the dorsals, near the first anal ray. Ventrals 

 small, outer ray with a long filament which reaches to the seventh ray 

 of the anal, origin forward of that of the pectoral, or below the hind 

 edge of the opercle. Pectorals small, elongate, the filament of the upper 

 ray extending below the origin of the second dorsal. Scales small, thin, 

 deciduous, with concentric strife ; five scales in a row from the lateral line 

 to the base of the first dorsal or thirty-one in a series from this dorsal to 

 the anal. The short first dorsal separates this species from its nearest 

 allies on this coast. 



Cheeks, flanks, abdomen, and linings of mouth and body black ; muscular 

 portions from the nape backward reddish brown or flesh color, the scales 

 being lost. Over the mucous chambers of the head the color is very 

 light; possibly in life the color of the muscular tracts was darker and red 

 or purple-tinted. 



Described specimen nine inches in total length. 



Macrurus carminifer sp. n. 



Plate XLVL,fy.3. 



Br. r. 6 ; D. 10 + 89-102 ; A. 96-105 ; V. 8 ; P. 21 ; Ltr. 30. 



Elongate and compressed, slender in the caudal region ; depth near 

 one sixth of the total length. From body to tail the taper, in the post 

 abdominal section, is not so abrupt as in either M. Uolepis or M. angiiUceps. 

 Head less compressed than the body; two elevenths of the total, subconical. 



