DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



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spaces;* seven branchiostegals; a first dorsal with about five weak spines, the second and 

 anal oblong, and normal thoracic ventrals (i, 5). (Gill, MS.) 



This family is represented by a single species and a single genus — Anomalops palpe 

 bratus (Boddaert), Giinther, known only from eight specimens, four from Amboina and 

 Manado, one from the Fiji Islands, one from the Fauiuoto Archipelago, and two others 

 from the New Hebrides, the types of Ogilby's recent valuable paper, "Eedescription of 

 Anomalops palpebrarum." (Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney, i, 1S90, 69-71.) 



This form was placed by Giinther in the family Carangidas, but this assignment was 

 professedly provisional, since he had never been able to examine the specimens. The origi- 

 nal assignment by Bleeker and Kner to the Hcri/rida: was more nearly exact, but, as Dr. 

 Gill has shown, it seems to possess positive and distinctive family characters of its own. 



ANOMALOPS, Kner. 



Anomalops, Kner, Sitzungsberichto Akad. Wiss. Wien., lviii, 1868, p. 294, pi. I., Fig, 1. 



Body oblong, covered with small rough scales. Snout very short and convex; mouth 

 very wide. Eyes very large; a glandular, elongate, and partly free, luminous organ occu- 



ANOMAL0P8 palpebbatcs. 



pies a hollow of the infraorbital ring below the eyes. Villiform teeth in the jaws and on the 

 palatine bones; vomer toothless. First dorsal short; second and anal moderately long; 

 caudal forked. (Giinther.) 



According to Giinther, Anomalops palpebratus lives in great depths, and comes to the 

 surface at night or by accident only. "The peculiar organ below the eyes," he writes, "is 

 without doubt of the same nature and has the same function as similar structures on the 

 side of the head of other deep-sea fishes; as in Pachystomias, it is partly free, as if it could 

 be made to protrude out of the pit in which it lies." 



Family CARANGID^E. 



Carangini, BONAPARTE, Catalojjo Metodico, Pesci Europei, 1876, 75. 



Carantjoidci, Bleekeu, Teutameu, 1859, win. | Fain ilia 100). — G&NTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit Mils, ii, 1X6(1, 117. 

 Carangidw, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 430; Arr. Fam. Fishes, 1872, 8 (No. 79); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., v. ].. 187,1883. 



This family is so little bathybial in its range that it may be passed over with a brief 

 allusion. The family includes perhaps two hundred species, many of which are semipe- 

 lagie in habit but which, so far as is at present known, live near the shores and in the upper 

 water. There is no evidence that any of them breed far from the coasts, except it may by 

 XaiicratfK. Most of them are probably restricted in range, so far as individual migrations 



* "Nostril large, nut separate i'rnin the eve by au osseous interspace." Ogilby, Ioc. cit., i>. 71. 



