90 " ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



FAMILY MYCTOPHID^. 

 Genus NEOSCOPELUS, Johnson. 

 NEOSCOPELUS MACROLEPIDOTUS, Johnson. 

 (Plate xvii.) 



Neoscopelus macrolepidotus, Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1863, 

 p. 44, pi. vii. Id., Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, 

 p. 93, pi. xxix., fig. 108-109. Id., Alcock, Cat. Ind. 

 Deep-sea Fish., 1899, p. 164 (references). 



Scopelus macrolepidotus, Giinther, Brit. Mns. Cat. Fish., v. 

 1864, p. 414, and " Challenger " Rept., Zool., xxii., 1887, 

 p. 196. 



The collection includes two specimens, 200-230 mm. long, 

 which do not quite agree with any of the published figures of this 

 species. In Johnson's plate, the ventrals are shown as inserted 

 below the fourth dorsal ray, whereas in my specimens they com- 

 mence vertically beneath the origin of the dorsal. The relative 

 positions of the adipose dorsal and the anal are better shown in 

 Goode & Bean's figure, the former being placed well before the 

 end of the latter ; but it is not so far forward as in Jordan and 

 Starks' figure of the closely allied N. alcocki. In all other 

 details my specimens appear to be identical with A 7 , macrolepi- 

 dotus. 



Colour. When first received their general colour was deep 

 pink, the scales having silvery reflections, and the ventral surface 

 on which the photophores are placed was violet black. Eyes and 

 photophores silvei'y gold, and the exposed bones of the head 

 burnished silver. Fins pink like the body, 



Loc. Great Australian Bight, Long. 129 28 'E., 350-450 

 fathoms ; 14th May, 1913. 



FAMILY MACRO RHAMPHOSIM}. 



Genus CENTRISCOPS, Gill. 

 CENTRISCOPS HUMEROSUS, Richardson. 



Centriscus humerosus, Richardson, Voy. " Erebus & Terror," 

 Fish., 1846, p. 56, pi. xxxiv., fig, 5-6. Id., Giinther, Brit. 

 Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 522. 



Centriscops humerosus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Philad., 

 1862, p. 234, footnote. 



Centriscops humerosus, var obliquus, Waite, Rec. Cantb. Mus., 

 i., pt. 3, 1911, p. 170, pi. xxvi. 



