961 
Depth 8 to 9 l/4j head 5 2/5 to 6, width 2 l/8 to 2 1/4. 
Snout 3 l/4 to 4 in head, 1 l/3 to 1 2/5 in eye; eye 2 4/5 to 3 
in head; preoral profile vertical, length 4 to 5; maxillary reach¬ 
es opposite hind eye edge, length from front end 1 2/3 to 1 3/4 in 
head; no barbel; teeth in narrow villiform bands in jaws, minute, 
uniform, of 3 or 4 irregular rows; interorbital.3 to 3 l/5 in head, 
low, cavernous, irregularly concave. Gill rakers 3 + 17, short 
elevate dentigerous tubercles on second arch, l/2 of gill filaments, 
which 4 l/2 in eye. 
Scales all fallen and pockets indistinct, squamation not 
made out; 5? above, 12 or 13? below# Scales with 8 or 9 small short 
denticles counted transversely apically, not extended behind scale 
edge; circuli coarse, complete# 
D. II, 9_JL18, second simple ray slender, entire, length 1 
2/5 in head; interdorsal space 1 l/2; A. 120, fin height 3 l/5; pec¬ 
toral rays I, 12, fin 1 2/3 to 1 3/4; ventral rays I, 12, fin 1 l/5 
to 1 3/5, first ray ending in filament. 
Pale brown, with under surface of head and belly darker, all 
. . V 
these regions also overshot with silvdry gray. Iris silvery and muz¬ 
zle above pale. Fins all more or less pale to whitish, ventral bases 
black. Inside mouth pale to whitish. Inside gill opening pale to 
whitish below, with brown above. Breast coppery, with median small 
slate colored lens-like body. Inner walls of gill opening below and 
sides of breast with parallel close set narrow vertical striae. 
Mediterranean, eastern Atlantic. 
U. S. N. M., No. 42100. 
Paris Museum (86+51). Length 120 mm. 
