639 
aj^rellus (Smith and Radcliffe) 
Macrourus asprellus Smith and Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., vol. 43, p. 118, pi. 26, fig. 1, 191? (type 
locality: southeast of Bachian Island, Dutch East 
Indies, in 845 fathoms). 
Coryphaenoides asprellus Gilbert and Hubbs , Bull. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., No. 100, vol. 1, p. 410, 1S20 (type). 
Weber and Beaufort , Fishes Indo Austral. Arch., vol. 5, 
p. 33, 1929 (compiled./ 
Depth 5 4/5? (tail mutilated)! head 4 3/5, width 2 1/8, 
Snout 4 in head; eye 4, 1 in snout, 1 1/6 in interorbital; 
maxillary reaches 3/4 in eye, length from front end 3 in 
head; ba.rbel 2 in eye; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, 5 
or 6 irregularly in transverse series; interorbital 3 l/2 in head 
low, broadly convex. '1131 raicers 0+6, low spinescent tubercles 
on first arch, 1/3 of gill filaments, -which 2 l/5 in eye. 
Scales 100 in lateral line; 6 above, 17? below, 15 or 16 
predorsal forward to occiput. Scales with 13 or 14 parrallel 
rows of apical spinules, ]ast extending beyond scale edge; 
circuli fine, complete. 
