101 
mandible protruded, with short projecting symphyseal spur; interorbital 6 1/2 
to 8 , low, broadly depressed* Gill rakers 6 + 17, lanceolate, slender, compressed 
, 1 l /2 in eye 5 gill filaments 2/5 gill rakers. 
Skin smooth, with many minute scattered nodules, mostly over lower portions 
of head and body, also fins* Lateral line complete, axial, along side and with 
small weak tubes* 
D. 29 or 30, fin height 2 4/5 to 3 l /8 in total head length; A. 28 or 29, 
fin height 2 l/2 to 2 7/8, fin origin slightly behind dorsal origin; caudal 
broken, apparently forked, rudimentary rays 12 or 13 above or below, inconspic¬ 
uous; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 4 l/3; pectoral broken, about equals 
orbit (?); ventral broken, apparently little shorter than pectoral, origin 
little nearer mandible tip than caudal base. 
Largely blackish brown, -*-ris neutral or slate black, pupil brownish white. 
Inside gill opening black. Fins pale. 
Eastern Atlantic. 
42096 U.S.N.M. (No data.) Museum Hist. Nat. Paris 85. 187. 
Length 131 mm. 
42097 U.S.N.M. (No data.) Museum Hist. Nat. Paris 85. 213. 
Length 126 mm. ' ■ - 
Xenodermichthys nodulosus Gttnther 
Xenodermichthys ftedulosus GUNTHER, Arm. Mag. Nat. Hist., series 5, vol.2, 1878, 
p. 250. Off YEddo, Japan, in 345 fathoms; Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol.l, pt. 
6 , 1880, p.63 (reference); vol.22, 1887, p.230, pi.58, fig. C (type). - 
GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichthy., 1895, p.46, fig.57 (compiled).- JORDAN and 
STARES, Bull. U.S.Fish Comm., vol.22, 1902 (1904), p.579 (Sagami Bay). - 
