583 
Chocolate brown. Belly livid dark gray brown. Sides of head 
dark. Iris dark gray. Inside mouth and gill openings black, also 
branchiostegals. Mandible dark. Fins more or less dark to dusky. 
Philippines. In this species the head is a little longer than 
the trunk and the pectoral reaches a little beyond vent. Its coloration 
in noticeably dark. 
U. S. N. M., no. 72925. Cagayan Island (S.), S. 11° E., 4.8 miles (lat. 
9° 33' 30" N., long. 121° 11' E.), Jolo Sea. In 508 fathoms. March 
31, 1909. Albatross Collection (D.5423). Length 432 mm. Type of 
Pegania sulcata . 
Genus Trachyrinchus Giorna 
Trachyrinchus GIORNA, Mem. Accad. Imp. Turin, vol. 16, p. 178, 
1803. (Atypic. Type Lepidoleprus trachyrinchus RISSO, affixed 
Tautotypic.) 
Trachyrhynchus GUNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 22, p. 152, 
1887. (Type Lepidoleprus trachyrinchus RISSE, tautotypic.) 
Oxycephus RAFINESQUE, Indice Itt. Sicil., p. 13, 1810. (Type 
Oxycephus scabrus RAFINESQUE, monotypic.) 
lepido leprus RISSO, Ichth. Nice, p. 197, 1810. (Type Lepidoleprus 
trachyrinchus RISSO, monotypicl) 
