APODAL FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 
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99. CHLOPSIS EQUATORIALIS. 
Chlopsis equatorial is Gilbert, mss. 
Habitat : Deep waters of eastern Pacific. 
Etymology: From the equator. 
[This species has not the appearance of a deep-sea eel, though the intestine protruded 
through the anus in the type specimen, as the result of the release of pressure. 
It is described from a single specimen, 14£ inches long, taken by the Albatross off 
the coast of Ecuador at about lat. 1° S., long. 81° W., in 401 fathoms.] {Gilbert.) 
Genus 32. — NETTASTOMA. 
Nettastoma Rafinesque, Caratteri, etc., 66, 1810 ( melanurum ). 
Hyoprorus Kolliker, Verh. Phys. Med. Ges. Wurzb., iv, 101, 1854 (messinensis = iarva 
of melanurum). 
Type : Nettastoma melanurum Rafinesque. 
Etymology : A^rra, duck ; axopa^ mouth. 
This genus contains two or three species from the deeper parts of 
both oceans. 
ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN SPECIES OF NETTASTOMA. 
a. (Cleft of the mouth extending to below the hind margin of eye; dorsal fin com- 
mencing immediately behind the gill-openings ; tail long, nearly twice as long 
as body; fins with a black margin posteriorly; peritoneum black.) {Giiniher.) 
Melanurum, 100. 
100. NETTASTOMA MELANURUM. 
(SORCIERE.) 
Nettastoma melanurum Rafinesque, Caratteri, 66, 1810 (Sicily) ; Gunther, vm, 48, 1870 
(Nice); Doderlein, Atti. Acc. Soc. 58,1877 (Palermo); Giglioli, Cat. Anfib. 
e Pesci Ital. , 47, 1880 (Nice, Palermo) ; Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. 
Genova, 585, 1883; Giinther, Voy. Challenger, xxii, 253, 1887, and of 
European writers generally. 
Murcenophis saga Risso, Ichth. Nice, 370, pi. 10, fig. 39, 1810 (Nice). 
Hyoprorus messinensis Kolliker, Verb. Phys. Med. Gesellschs. Wurzburg, iv, 101, 1854 
(Messina; larval form); Vaillant, Exp6d. Travailleur et Talisman, 95 
(Morocco). 
? Nettastoma brevirostre Facciol^, “Nat. Sicil., vi, 166, pi. in, f. 3, Sicily,” 1887 {fide 
Zoological Record). 
Habitat : Mediterranean Sea. 
Etymology: MeXa<z, black ; oupd, tail. 
This species is not rare in the deeper parts of the Mediterranean. 
According to Risso, its flesh has a disagreeable odor. Another species, 
Nettastoma brevirostre Facciold, has been described from the Mediter- 
ranean, but we have not seen the description. 
Genus 33.— VENEF1CA. 
Venifica Jordan & Davis, gen. nov. {procerum). 
Type : Nettastoma procerum Goode & Bean. 
Etymology : Venefica , sorceress, from the name Sorciere used at Nice 
for Nettastoma melanurum . 
