222 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



orbital space ; anterior one of each pair with a dermal prolongation. Eye 

 large, nearly two sevenths of the length of the head, lower very little less 

 advanced than the upper. Teeth small, right anterior larger, in a single 

 series. Gill rakers moderately elongate, strong, sharp, three on the upper 

 section of the forward edge of the first arch and nine on the lower. Lateral 

 line making a regular upward curve above the pectoral three times as long 

 as high ; straight from the tip of the pectoral backward. 



Pectoral on each side with eleven mys, half as long as the head. Dorsal 

 and anal rays shorter and forming fringes anteriorly ; dorsal origin at the 

 forward portion of the right eye ; anal origin below the base of the pecto- 

 ral ; anal preceded by a short procumbent spine ; caudal longer in the median 

 rays, blunt, separated from dorsal and anal by a space equal to the length of 

 the snout ; left ventral longer. 



Scales small, larger along the middle of the flank, small on the head near 

 the bases of the fins and on the fin rays, absent from the snout. 



Grayish-brown with transverse cloudings of ■ darker ; with numerous 

 small spots of light color edged with black on the left side, forming one or 

 two longitudinal series on dorsal and anal, a couple of tranverse series on 

 the caudal, and three or four still more irregular series on tlie flank. Right 

 side uniform flesh color. Left pectoral with a couple of transverse bands of 

 brown. The fins and flank are more or less freckled with brown. In cases 

 there are several - transverse bands, or five or six narrow streaks, on the left 

 side. 



Agreeing tolerably with the species H. Bollraani Gilb. in numbers of fin 

 rays, but possessing a larger n-umber of rows of scales between the lateral 

 line and the dorsal and somewhat different markings. 



Engyophrys Sancti-Laurenti. 



Engyophrys Sancti-Laurenti J. B., 1889, P. U. S. Mus., XII., 17G. 



D. 89 ; A. 73 ; V. 6 ; P. 1. 12, r. 10 ; C. 17 ; LI. 67 ; Ltr. 22 + 26. 



Form a sinistral much compressed suboval in which the greatest depth 

 is one half and the length of the head one fourth of the length from the 

 snout to the base of the caudal. An indentation of the outline in front of 

 the upper eye is partly filled by the bony orbit on the ridge of which there 



