(387), pl» 47, figs, 2-2b, 1899 (type locality : let, 0°18’40" 
N», long, 90°34’W., 327 fathoms; off Galapagos, 331 fathoms). 
Macrurus (Macrurus) loricatus Breuer, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. 
Valdivia, vol. 15, p. 388, 1806 (reference). 
Lionurus loricatus Gilbert and Hubbs, Proc, U. S, Nat, Mus., vol. 
51, p. 146, 1916 (reference). 
Depth 6 l/4; head 5, width 1 4/5. Snout 3 l/3 in head; eye 
3 1/3, equals snout, 1 1/4 times interorbital; preoral profile 
slightly concave, oblique, length 3 l/2 in nead; maxillary reaches 
l/2 in eye, length from front end 3 l/8 in head; mandibular barbel 
1/2 of orbit; teeth in villiforn bands in jaws, 4 or 5 irregular 
rows; interorbital 4 in head, low, nearly level. Gill rakers 1 + 
7, low spinescent tubercles on second arch, 1/4 of gill filaments 
which 2 1/2 in orbit. 
Scales 132 in lateral line; 10 above, 17 below, 36 prodorsal 
of vihich 22 forward opposite hind orbital edge. Scales with irreg¬ 
ular parallel rows of spinules, last not extended beyond scale edge 
circuli moderate, complete. 
