Ser pa hoffma nni. new species 
Notoscopelus qnercinus (part) GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichth., 
1895, p. 83 (not fig. 97) (Nos. 43790 and 43791 U. 3. N. M.). 
Depth 5 1/4; head 3 1/?, width 2 1/3. Snout 6 1/5 in head; eye 4, 
greater than snout, equals interorbital; maxillary extends 1 l/3 eye 
diameters behind hind eye edge though not quite to well inclined hind 
preopercle edge, slender, length 1 1/4 in head; interorbital 4, slightly 
convex. Gill rakers 6 4 14, slender, lanceolate, 1 1/4 in eye; gill 
filaments 3/5 of gill rakers. 
Scales 34? in lateral line to caudal base, not enlarged; 4 above, 
4 below, 12 predorsal forward to occiput. Caudal base scaly. Scales 
with 5 basal radiating striae; circuli very fine, complete. 
