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Head very large, nearly equals rest of body to caudal base. Snout rather 
short, narrowly triangular in profile. Eye moderate. Ho upper teeth, mandibular 
microscopic. Interorbital broad, level. Opercle very large, prolonged as mem¬ 
branous lobe overhanging pectoral base. Gill membranes largely united. Scales 
small, irregular, crowded, cycloid, bead naked or scaly. Dorsal an( ! anal 
opposite, similar, well posterior. Caudal forked. Sectoral with deep base. 
Ventral small, close before anal. 
Atlantic and East Indies. Known chiefly by its enormous head which 
nearly long as rest of body v/ithout caudal. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES. 
1 „ 
a. ASQUAMICEPS. head naked; mandible very slightly protruded; maxillary 
reaches 4/5 in eye. velaris. 
2 
a. MEGALEPOCEPH:.LUS new subgenus, head somewhat scaly; mandible included 
within upper jaw; maxillary reaches slightly behind eye. 
longmani. 
Subgenus ASQUAMICEPS Zugmayer 
Mandible slightly protrudes in front. 
e 
A 
Maxillary reaches 4/5 in eye. 
Branchiostegals 5. bead naked. 
in 
Dorsal and anal inserted little behind last third/length without caudal. 
Asqiiamiceps velaris Zugmayer 
i a' i Mi m • ■ " ■ 1 " ** m 
Asquamiceos velaris ZUGMAYER, Bull. Inst. Oclan. Monaco, No.193, January 20, 
1911, p.2. N. 36 0 6 ’ W. 0. °, 3660 meters, off Portugal; R§s. Camp. Sci* 
< Monaco, vol.35, 1911, p.10, pl.l, **ig.4 (type). - NORMAN, Discovery Rep., 
