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CAREPROCTUS MELANURUS Gilbert. 



A single specimen taken at station 4307, off San Diego, depth 

 169-496 fathoms. 



PARALIPARIS CEPHALUS Gilbert. 



4317 

 4334 

 4380 



Off San Diego 



do 



Off North Coronado Island 



Fathoms. 

 161-510 

 514-541 

 530-618 



No trace of a membrane narrowing the wide gill-opening, which 

 in all the specimens collected appears to extend from above the 

 pectoral to a point entirely below the pectoral fin. The condition 

 reported in one of the cotypes, which is said to have had the gill- 

 opening restricted to the area above base of pectorals, has not been 

 verified in any of the numerous specimens subsequently examined 

 and must be considered questionable. Through an error in the 

 original description, repeated by Jordan and Evermann, 1 the maxillary 

 is said to be " slightly more than length of head." This should read 

 slightly more than half length of head. 



PARALIPARIS ULOCHIR Gilbert 



Two small specimens from stations as follows : 



4516 

 4538 



Monterey Bay. 

 do 



Fathoms. 

 718-756 

 795-871 



The integument is largely lost, so the original color of these young 

 specimens can not be given. The head is dusky and the abdomen 

 lined with black. 



PARALIPARIS MENTO Gilbert. 



Plate 18, fig. 12. 



One specimen, 75 mm. in total length, from station 4512, Monterey 

 Bay, 309 to 536 fathoms. 



Agreeing with the description of the type in the salient characters 

 of this very striking species, but differing in certain details of measure- 

 ment. 



Length to base of caudal, 65 mm. Length of head, twenty hun- 

 dredths of total length without caudal; greatest depth, at occiput, 

 22; greatest width of head, 12.5; diameter of eye, 5.5; length of 

 snout, 6; interorbital width, 8.5; length of maxillary, measured from 

 tip of snout, 9; width of gill-slit, 7.5; length of longest upper pectoral 

 ray, 24; of longest ray of lower lobe, 25; of shortest ray in notch, 5. 

 The chin is broad, rounded, and prominent, slightly protuding beyond 

 the profile, but the mandibular margin shuts within the premaxillaries. 



» Fishes of North America, p. 2141. 



