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DEEP SEA FISHES. 



The right eye of one specimen has failed to come through the skin ; it 

 is to be seen in the tissues, with less than half the diameter of the left 

 eye and with a minute pupil, directed toward the left, in the ordinary 

 situation. 



Specimens of the length of five inches are nearly nniform brown, faintly 

 clouded with darker, and are Tuarked with ten to a dozen, or more, blotches 

 of black on dorsal and anal, which fins are whitish between and around the 

 spots. Anteriorly the blotches are brownish and less distinct. Caudal 

 tipped witli white, blackish toward tlie base. Edges of scales darker. On 

 young specimens the markings, both the black and the white, are more 

 distinct, as also are the edgings of the scales ; and there are five or six 

 bands of brown, passing more or less directly across the left side, rather 

 incomplete or broken anteriorly. 



Symphurus microlepis sp. n. 

 Plate Lll. fig. 3. 



D. 101 ; A. 91 ; LI. 135 ; Ltr. 58. 



Outlinqs similar to those of Symphurus afmmentatiis, but curved rather 

 more toward the tail ; depth about one fourth and length of head two 

 ninths of the total length. Snout short, little longer than the eye, rounded 

 in front, villous on the right side. Mouth small, asymmetrical, strongly 

 curved. Teeth small, in villiform bands, less numerous on the left side. 

 Tubular nostril nearly midway from the eye to the end of the snout, near 

 the mouth. Eyes small, prominent, close together, npper slightly advanced 

 beyond the lower, length about one sixth of that of the head. Operculum 

 with a shallow indentation on the hinder margin. 



Scales very small, ctenoid. 



Dorsal and anal fringed anteriorly; dorsal rays shorter toward the head; 

 dorsal orio-in above the forward part of the eye ; anal origin below the 

 eleventh or the twelfth ray of the dorsal ; ventral covered by the opercular 

 membrane, as long as the snout inclusive of the orbit; caudal pointed. 



