1339 
Halosauropsis broboscideus 
(Gilbert) 
Halosaurus proboscldea GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
vol, 23, pt. 2, 1903 (1905), p. 612. Kauai Channel, 
between Molokai and Oahu, 460 to 470 fathoms; Kaiwi 
Channel and Kauai, 438 to 476 fathoms. — FOWLER, 
Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 35 (compiled). 
Aldrovandla proboscldea GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
vol. 23, pt. 2, 1903 (1905), p. 612, pi. 76. 
Depth 18, 6 1/4 to anal; head 7 2/5 in total, 2 4/5 to 
anal, width 3 1/2. Snout to eye 2 1/3 in head; orbit 7; eye 
8, 3 3/4 in snout, subequal with interorbital; maxillary 
reaches to eye, length from snout tip 2 1/4 in head, without 
spine; teeth rather finely villiform bands in jaws; crecentic 
palatine bands fully confluent anteriorly on median line, 
wider than premaxillary bands, pterygoid bands very narrow; 
interorbital equals eye, low. Gill rakers 4 -f 11, little 
longer than gill filaments or 1 3/5 in orbit. 
