310 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



nape to internarial region. Snout short, nearly one seventh of the head, 

 equal to the width of the interorbital space, little longer than the eye, not 

 varying greatly from one third of the mouth-cleft, subpyramidal, shovel- 

 shaped at the tip. Nostrils near the edge of the lip ; anterior tubular, near 

 the end of the snout ; posterior nearer the eye, with a shorter and smaller 

 tube. Teeth small, larger forward, acicular, in two series on each jaw and 

 in a single series along the shaft of the vomer. The anterior upper teeth 

 form an angular transverse series, in fi-ont of the lower jaws, that is sepa- 

 rated from the other teeth by a notch below the forward nostril. A group 

 of several begins the series on the vomerine shaft. Several of the foremost 

 teeth resemble canines. Lower jaws shorter than the upper. Tongue 

 small. Eye large, three fourths as long as the snout, two sevenths as long 

 as the mouth, nearly one tliird of the length of the head, situated above the 

 middle of the mouth cleft, pupil horizontally elongate. Gill openings wide, 

 more than twice the width of the base of the pectoral, separated from one 

 another below by a space of less than the width of the opening, nearly 

 vertical but lower angles farther backward. 



Dorsal origin over the posterior fourth of the pectoral, distant from the 

 gill openings less than one third of the length of the head ; dorsal rays 

 weak, like those of the anal received into a groove at their bases formed 

 of folds of the skin. Anal origin below the eighty-first ray of the dorsal, 

 deeper than the dorsal but like the latter hidden in a groove. Tip of the 

 tail finless for about one length of the orbit. Pectorals medium, two 

 sevenths as long as the head. In cases the fins are very low. Vent below 

 the seventy-seventh and end of body chamber below the ninety-eighth 

 dorsal ray. 



Brown, darker on the upper portions ; tip of tail, fins, and throat little 

 lighter. 



On young specimens the whole body is lighter in color, and the fins are 

 less developed. A female measuring sixteen inches in length contains 

 mature eggs. Largest specimen twenty-two inches long. 



station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth, Temperature. Bottom. 



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



3389 7° 16' 45" N. 79° 56' 30" W. 210 " 48.8 F. Gn. M. 



3391 7° 33' 40' N. 79° 43' 20" W. 153 " 55.8 F. Gn. M. 



In the subdivisions of the genus this species should be placed in Cryptop- 

 tcnis Kaup, near C ^;;»t(;Vic(y« Kaup from the Caribbean Sea, its closest ally. 



