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On a supposed new genus anrl specjes of Pelagic Gadoid fishes 

 from the Mediterranean (1) 



Eretmophorus (2), gen. nov. 



Body moderately elongate, tapering in older specimens towards 

 the tail; covered with small adherent cycloid scales marked with 

 concentric lines, and not extending to the head and abdomen, which 

 are naked. Abdomen prolonged in a great cone, much more deve- 

 loped in the older specimens; at its extremity, nearly opposite to 

 the small first dorsal fin, is the anal aperture and behind this a small 

 conical papilla. A separate caudal, lanceolate in the younger spe- 

 cimen, subtruncate in th« older one; two dorsals and' one anal fin ; 

 the second dorsal and anal largely ai:d equally developed. Pectorals 

 lobate; veutrals jugular, singulary developed, with f\ve rays, th ree 

 of which, and more especially the third and fourth, are greatly 

 elongated and furnished at the end with abcautiful lanceolate paddle- 

 like blade. Vertex of head and nape with small hyaline cylindrical 

 warts. Ten h very small, few and inconspicuous, on premaxillse 

 and end of mandible. Branchiostegals seven. No barbel. 



Eketmophorus klei.nenbekgi, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIV). 



I. D. 4. II. D. 73. A. 73. C. 26. P. 22. V. 5. B. iv. 



Brs. vii. 



Bodij compressed, tapering towards the tail, but less so in the 

 younger specimen, in which the huge and singular abdominal cone 

 is also less developed. The height of the body behind the abdo- 

 minal cone is contained between 5 ' .'., and 6 times in the total 



li Pai « Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London » : 

 18 June, 1889, p;<£. 328-332, con 1 tav. (V. la tav., cioè « Plate XXXIV ». 

 nel volume dei detti « Proceedings ». 



(2) Epetjiòs (remits), oar; oopo? {ferens) carrier. 



