724 . 
Depth 62/5 to 7; head 5, width 1 3/4. Snout to eye 3 1/8 
to 3 1/6 in head; eye 51/4 to 5 2/5, 1 3/4 to 1 4/5 in snout, 
1 l/4 to 1 1/3 in interorbita}; orbit 3 to 4 l/5 in head, 1 1/8 
to 1 l/5 in snout, 1 in interorbital; maxillary reaches 3/4 of 
eye to opposite hind edge of orbit, length from front end 2 2/5 
to 2 4/5 in head, mandibular barbel l/2 of eye; teeth small, conic. 
pointed, in 2 o4 3 rows above with outer slightly enlarged, lower 
biserial though with inner row slightly larger; intororbital 3 2/3 
to 4 in head, low, broadly concave medially* Gill rakers 2 + 10, 
low spinescent knobs, l/3 of gill filaments, which l/2 of orbit* 
Scales 152 in lateral line to pseudocaudal; 10 or 11 above, 18 
below, 60 predorsal of which 30 forward opposite hind eye edge* 
Scales with 3 to 8 radiating apical spinuliferous ridges, last spinules 
extended behind scale edge; circuli fine, complete* 
D. II, 10_126, second yaimptce ray slender, with row of small 
antrorse spines along its front edge, length 1 2/5 to 1 3/5 in head; 
interdorsal space 1 l/2 to 1 2/3 in orbit; A. 105, fin height 3 l/5 
to 4 l/3 in head; pseudocaudal 1/5 of eye; pectoral rays I, 19, fin 
1 7/8 to 2 in head; ventral rays I, 7, fin 1 2/3 to 1 3/4 in head, 
first simple ray ending in filament. 
Uniformly brown. Eye little pale to gray* Inside gill open¬ 
ing blackish, inside mouth paler. Fins all more or less dusky, 
Bering Sea. 
U. S. N. M., No. 48772. 
Albatross Collection (D.1310). 
Length 778 mm. Type of Macrurus firmisquamis. 
