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Dorsal fin beginning immediately behind head, the posterior line 

 of occiput midway between front of eye and base of first dorsal 

 ray. Origin of anal under eighteenth dorsal ray. Pectoral broad, 

 variable in length, but not nearly reaching vent. Rays of all the fins 

 forked for a short distance near tips. 



Color in spirits brownish or grayish brown, in life translucent olive, 

 the dorsal and anal anteriorly narrowly margined with dusky, the 

 marginal dusky streak widening and intensifying posteriorly until it 

 includes the entire fin, and is jet black with a very narrow white 

 edge. Mouth fight, gullet and gill cavity brownish or black, the gill 

 membranes with a broad sharply contrasting white edge. Gill arches 

 not black. Peritoneum black; a black ring around vent. 



List of stations. 



4317 

 4333 

 4351 

 4380 

 4403 

 4405 

 4407 

 4516 

 4540 



Off San Diego 



Fathoms. 

 161-510 

 301-487 

 423-488 

 530-618 

 505-599 

 654-704 

 478-S00 

 718-756 

 389-551 



do 



do 



Off Coronado Islands 



Off San Clemente Island 



do 



OfF Santa Hatalina Tslanri 



Monterey Bay 



do 





BOTHROCARA REMIGERA, new species. 

 Plate 20, fig. 19. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 75820, U.S.N.M., a male, 283 mm. long, 

 from station 4516, Monterey Bay, depth 718 to 756 fathoms. 



Dorsal, 112 (without caudal); anal, 94; pectoral, 15 on each side. 



Length of head, twenty-one one-hundredths of total length; horizon- 

 tal diameter of eye, 4.6; width of frontal bone between orbits, 2.5; 

 distance from tip of snout to front of eye, 6.1 ; length of maxillary, 8; 

 greatest postocular width of head, 8.5; distance from tip of snout to 

 front end of gill-slits, 12.5; greatest depth of body, 12; distance from 

 tip of snout to base of first dorsal ray, 22; to vent, 35; from vent 

 to base of pectoral, 16; longest pectoral ray, 17.5. 



Occiput broad, with a median lengthwise keel. Interorbital region 

 narrow, the median sensory pit longer and narrower than in Lyco- 

 gramma brunnea, the pair behind it strongly diverging, while in 

 brunnea they are nearly parallel. Tip of snout prominent above, the 

 profile behind the tip concave. 



Mouth horizontal, the mandible included, the tip of maxillary 

 reaching a vertical from middle of eye. PremaxiUary bands of teeth 

 narrow laterally, widening in front, the outer series slightly enlarged, 

 the inner series directed backwards and downwards; mandibular 

 teeth uniform, small, anteriorly in a wide band which tapers later- 

 ally to a single series. Vomer with a short median patch on its 



