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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
moderate, slightly oblique, the maxilla, which is slender and 
scarcely widened at the tip, concealed beneath the preorbital, 
and extending to beyond the vertical from the front margin of 
the pupil. Upper profile of head slightly convex, the snout 
abruptly descending. Preopercle with radiating stripe, each of 
which terminates in a flexible point : opercle and subopercle 
crossed by similar stripe. Body oblong and somewhat compressed. 
Teeth in the jaws minute, sharp, closely and evenly set. The 
dorsal fin commences nearly midway between the vent and the 
origin of the ventrals ; all the rays are soft and, with the excep- 
tion of the first, branched ; the anterior rays very low, the fin 
gradually rising posteriorly, the highest rays 3*00 in the length 
of the head : the anal fin commences slightly in front of the 
middle of the body, and ends just in front of the last dorsal ray : 
ventral short and small, inserted a little behind the pectorals, 
with one of the rays slightly filamentous, its length 3*00 in that 
of the head : pectorals rounded, small, not so long as the head : 
caudal broad and fan-shaped, the peduncle slender. Scales small, 
soft, and smooth, in one or two series on the preorbitaL* None 
of the fin rays armed with spinules. Lateral line nearly straight, 
smooth. Airbladder wanting. 
Colors . — Brown, paler below, somewhat punctulated. 
Habitat. — Deep water off the coast of California. 
Length seven inches and a half. 
SCHEDOPHILUS BERTIIELOTI. 
Criusf lerthelotii , Valenc. in Webb & Berthel. lies Canar. Poiss. 
p. 45, pi. ix. f. 1, 1836. 
Schedophilus lerthelotii , G-nth. Catal. Fish. ii. p. 412, 1860. 
Schedophilus hotter i (Heck.) Steindachn. SB. Ak. Wien, 1868, 
lvii. p. 379, pi. ii. f. 2. 
D. 36-38. A. 23-25. V. 1/5. P. 21. Ccec. pyl. 6. 
Length of liead| 3'75, height of body 3‘00 in the total length. 
Eye large, its diameter 2 ‘60 in the length of the head : snout short, 
but little more than half the diameter of the eye : interorbital space 
fiat, 1*33 in the same. The maxilla extends to beneath the middle 
of the orbit. Snout very strongly convex; occiput convex; a shallow 
concave interspace. Preopercular teeth numerous, rather short, 
* Other scales on the head, if any, lost on the typical example, 
t Prom Kpios, a ram. 
t Calculated from Dr. Steindachner’s description of a young example. 
I have not been able to consult Messrs. Webb & Berthelot’s work, while 
Dr. Gunther's notice, owing probably to the only specimen available to 
him being a half -grown skin, is valueless for comparison. 
