579 
D. n, 10 - 97 (ends of rays damaged); A. 90?; pseudocaudal 
small, of few rays, at least 2 l/2 in eye; pectoral rays J_, 16, fin 1 3/4 
in total head length; ventral rays _I, 8, fin 2 2/5, 
Drab or grayish, head, breast and belly not darker. Inside mouth 
and gill opening 1 blackish. Iris gray white. Fins brownish, dorsal and 
anal posteriorly and caudal dusky, also paired fins. 
Japan. Known only from the type. The lateral line falls mtftQr 
low above the anal fin and though ends of first dorsal and paired fins 
broken off it is possible that they mey have ended in filaments. The ends 
of all these fins are less definite than the original figure seems to show. 
U. N. S. P., no. 50931. Oi Gawa, N. 49°, W. 2.8 miles, off Honshu Island, 
Japan. In 207 to 250 fathoms. May 12, 1900. Albatross Collection (D.3721). 
Length 590 mm. Type of Regania nipponica . 
Bathygadus spongiceps Gilbert and Hubbs 
Bathygadus spongiceps GILBERT and HUBBS, Bull. U• S* Nat* Mus#, 
no. 100, vo1. 1, p. (380) 381, fig. 1, 1920 (type locality: 
off north east Borneo; off southern Luzon; off south east coast 
of Luzon; 480 to 890 * fathoms). 
