JAPANESE EISHES. 
579 
ALEPOCEPHALII)y£. 
5. Xenodermichthys nodulosus Giinther. 
One fine specimen 21.5 cm. long, from station 3697, Sagami Bay. It agrees well with Gunther’s 
description and excellent figure. 
Head 6 in length; depth 7; I). 32; A. 31. Color entirely black. Lateral line well developed, 
with scale-like structures; the rest of the body naked, covered with fine longitudinal wrinkles; 
luminous nodules all black. 
AULOPIDtE. 
6. Aulopus japonicus Schlegel. 
Specimens from stations 3708, 65 to 125 fathoms; 3713 in 500 to 600 fathoms; 3714 in 48 to 60 
fathoms, and 3720, 63 fathoms, all in Suruga Bay, and from station 3730, Totomi Bay, 37 fathoms. 
7. Chlorophthalmus albatrossis Jordan & Starks, new species. (PI. 1, hg. 1.) 
Type, No. 51446, U. S. Nat. Mus., from station 3698, Sagami Bay, in 153 fathoms. Cotypes, No. 
8394, Stanford University. 
Head3to23; depth 5 to 12; D. i, 10; A. 8; scales 53-16; eye 2.5 in head; snout 3.75; maxillary 2.5; 
interorbital space 4.3 in eye. 
Body cylindrical, depressed anteriorly; eyes very large, close together above, with the range 
largely vertical; mouth terminal, very oblique, maxillary reaching to opposite front of pupil; lower 
jaw projecting; teeth small, in narrow bands on jaws, in very narrow straight bands on palatines, and 
in two small, widely separated patches on vomer; body covered with firm scales, those on breast 
much smaller; cheeks and opercles scaly; no lateral line; dorsal fin inserted well in advance of ven- 
trals, the ventral base nearly under middle of dorsal; dorsal fin rather short and high; anal fin small; 
ventrals large, inserted well forward; pectoral long, 1.1 in head; adipose fin well developed; caudal 
widely forked. Color olivaceous, with numerous irregular dark cross-shades on back, these extending 
upward and backward; scales of anterior parts below silvery, with numerous black dots; axil black; 
inner rays of ventrals jet black; some black shading at hase of caudal, fins otherwise plain. 
One specimen 17 cm. long, and two smaller ones, from station 3698, Sagami Bay, 153 fathoms; 
six still smaller specimens from station 3717, Suruga Bay, 65 to 125 fathoms. 
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8. Chauliodus emmelas Jordan & Starks, new species. (PI. 1, fig. 2.) 
One specimen 20.8 cm. long, from station 3697, in Sagami Bay, 120 to 265 fathoms; type No. 
51464, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Close to Chauliodus sloani, the body more slender and the color entirely jet black. 
Head 7.5 in length; depth 8; D. 6; A. 10; scales about 60; eye 5 in head; snout 4; longest fang 2; 
ventral fins unusually long, 5.5 in body; dorsal filament 2.6; pectoral 1.4 in head; barbel at chin pale. 
General appearance of Chauliodus sloani. Luminous spots similar, 19 in a series from isthmus to 
ventrals; distance from pectoral to ventral, 4.2 in body; lateral fangs of lower jaw larger than those of 
upper. Color entirely jet-black, the fins a little paler. In the accompanying plate the artist has 
restored the squamation, lost in the specimen, from Garman’s plates. 
G0N0ST0MIILE. 
9. Neostoma gracile (Gunther). 
Gonostoma gracile Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, 187. Gunther, Deep Sea Fishes, Challenger, p. 171, pi. xlv, 
fig. c, 1887; south of Japan. 
One specimen, 2.5 inches long, from station 3712, Suruga Bay (surface); also two others, very 
small and in poor condition. 
Head 5.5 in length; depth 9.5; D. about 10; A. 26; eye 6 in head; maxillary 1.1. Body very 
elongate, considerably more slender than in Cydolhone microdon; teeth stronger, numerous, slender, 
curved; short canines in each jaw; lower jaw much projecting; body apparently scaleless; anal fin 
beginning near middle of body, two-fifths of a head’s length in advance of dorsal, the fin 3 times as 
long as dorsal fin; first ray of dorsal over eighth of anal; ventrals short, 1.6 in head, not quite reaching 
anal; pectoral long and narrow, 1.5 in head; no adipose fin. 
