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The dorsal series of plates is almost universally interrupted under 

 the end of soft dorsal. In two specimens of this collection the series 

 is not interrupted, becoming single at the spot where the break com- 

 monly occurs. 



List of stations. 



4304 

 4346 

 4347 

 4442 

 4452 

 4476 

 4477 

 4479 

 4487 

 4489 

 4490 

 4492 

 4519 

 4520 

 4557 

 4558 



Off San Diego . 



do 



do 



Monterey Bay. 

 do 



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 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



Fathoms. 

 25 

 46-50 

 55-58 

 26-31 

 49-50 

 25-39 

 11-19 

 33-45 

 18-19 

 18-20 

 16-20 

 26-27 

 27-35 

 32-44 

 53-54 

 28-40 



ICELINUS FUSCESCENS, new species. 

 Plate 17, fig. 9. 



Type- specimen. — Cat. No. 75812, U.S.N.M., a female, 107 mm. 

 long, from station 4418, off Santa Barbara Island, depth 260 to 310 

 fathoms. 



Measurements in hundredths of total length to base of caudal 

 Length of head, including opercular flap, 39; width of head, 22 

 greatest depth of bony interorbital width, 3; diameter of orbit, 11.5 

 length of upper preopercular spine, 7 ; distance from tip of snout to 

 margin of gill-membrane, 24.5; to front of spinous dorsal, 34; to 

 front of second dorsal, 32.5; base of anal, 21.5; length of caudal 

 peduncle, 21; longest dorsal spine, 12; longest dorsal ray, 26; 

 longest anal ray, 13.5; length of pectoral, 24.5; length of ventral, 5; 

 length of caudal, 19.5; greatest depth of body, 23.5; depth of caudal 

 peduncle, 7. 



Dorsal, X, 16; anal, 12; pectoral 18, the lower 10 rays thickened; 

 ventral, I, 2, as in all other species of the genus, not I, 3, as com- 

 monly stated. 



Head heavy, quadrate in cross section, the cheeks vertical; inter- 

 orbital space narrow, flat, or with an obscure median ridge, its width 

 about half diameter of pupil; nostril in a short tube; no nasal fila- 

 ment; a short cutaneous flap, narrowed at base and palmately cleft, 

 posteriorly on upper orbital rim ; a slender filament at end of occipital 

 ridge, and a small flap midway between this and the supraorbital 

 flap ; a minute filament superiorly near the tip of the maxillary, and 

 one in advance of upper end of gill-cleft; no filaments along lateral 

 fine; maxillary reaching vertical from posterior margin of pupil; 

 palatine patches of teeth comparatively short and broad, their 

 length about half the transverse width of the vomerine patch; nasal 



