522 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



After Anthias, add : 



BATHYANTHIAS, Gunther. 

 BathyantMas, Gunther, Challenger Report, vi, il 



"Form of tlie body similar to that of .Anthias. One dorsal fin with 9 spines; anal with 

 3; caudal truncated. Teeth in villiform bands, in the jaws, on the vomer and palatine bones, 

 without canines. Tongue smooth. Preoperculum finely serrated, without projection. Scales 

 of moderate size, very finely ciliated. Branchiostegals seven" [Gilnther, loe. fit.). 



A single species, BathyantMas roseus (Gunther, loe. cit., PI. i, fig. b), was obtained by 

 the Challenger at station 122, off Pernambuco, in 30 to 350 fathoms. 



SYNAGROPS, Gunther. 



Melastoma, DCderlein, Denkschr. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, xi.yiii, 1883, 5. 

 Synagrops, GOnther, Challenger Report, xxn. 162. 



Shape of the body rather elongate. Upper side of the head with muciferous cavities. 

 Preoperculum finely denticulated, operculum with two points. Two dorsal fins, the first 

 with 9 slender spines, the second rather short. A narrow band of villiform teeth in the 

 jaws, on the vomer and palatine bones, with the addition of a pair of canine teeth in the 

 upper jaw, and a scries of similar teeth in the lower. Scales large, thin, and cycloid. Air 

 bladder present. Pyloric appendages in small number (six to seven). Pharynx and 

 peritoneal cavity black (Giintlier, Inc. cit. . 



The type of this genus, Synagrops japonicus (Doderlein), Giinther, was taken oil' Tokio 

 from "very great depths." 



Page 23!): Under Pristipomatidce add: 



PROPOMA, Giinther. 

 Propoma. Gunther, Challenger Report, VI, 39; xxn, 15. 



"This genus is closely allied to Heterognathodon, but differs from it in having 9 dorsal 

 spines only, in lacking the canine teeth in the upper jaw. and in having considerably smaller 

 scales on the back" (Giinther, Inc. cit. . 



Propoma roseum, Giinther (loe. cit.). This species was obtained by the Challenger off the 

 Ki Islands, at station 192, at a depth of 129 fathoms. 



Polyprion, according to ( 'apello, is found along the entire coast of Portugal, and belongs 

 to the open deep sea (reixes de Portugal, Lisbon, 1880, 5). 



Page 241: Priacanthus catalufa. Add to synonymy: 

 Priacanthua macrophthalmua, Gunther, Challenger Report, vi, Shore Fishes, 1880, 9. 



Under synonymy of Polyniixia, insert Dinemus, Poey. 



Polymiaria nobilis was taken by the Investigator at station 115 in the Arafnra Sea, 1SS 

 to 220 fathoms (Alcock, Ann. and Mag. Xat. Hist.. L891,223). 



Page 24.". : 



Scorpcena percoidss, Solander (=S. barathri, Hector, Trans. N. Z. Inst., VII, 1875, 

 245, PI. X; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xv. 1875, 80 =S. percoides, GtJNTHEB, Challenger 

 Report, xxn, 17). 



Has been found off South Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand (Hector)down to the 

 depth of 000 fathoms; at Twofold Bay, 120 fathoms, and oft' the Fijis, Challenger station 

 117, in 215 fathoms [Giinther). 



Page 246: Scorpcena scr'ofa obesa. Vinciguerra obtained a specimen in 1879, 20 miles 

 northeast of Malta, at a depth of 1 70 meters, and others nearer the shore at 80 meters. The 

 individual taken at the greatest depth differed from the others, resembling Uisso's Scorpcena 

 lutea, which he suggested was probably an inhabitant of considerable depths (Crocieredelle 

 Violante, 1883,50). 



Steindachner suggests that the Scorpcena ocellata of Lowe, described from Madeira, is 

 the young of Scorpcena lutea. 



Page 248: Helicolenus. The range of this genus should be stated as Mediterranean 

 and North Atlantic. 



