APPENDIX. 533 



Page 391: Ccelorhynchus pumiliceps, Alcock (Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, i.xiii, 

 Pari ii. No.-. 1894, p. 11), a form evidently close to M. sclerorhynchus, was found l>y the 

 Investigator at station L50 in the Laccadive Sea at Tin fathoms depth. 



Page oi'T: Ccelorhynch us quadricristatus (Alcock), Ul. Zool. Investigator, Fishes. PI. in, 

 6g. 1. 



Ccelorhynchus flabellispinis, Alcock (Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, i.xiii. Part n. No. 

 2. p. 9), was found by flic Investigator at station L50, Laccadive Sea, Tlii fathoms. 



Ccelorhynchus atlanticus. The Prince of .Monaco obtained a specimen at Funchal, 

 Madeira, in L889. 



Page KM): Ccelorhynchus japonicus, Schlegel. This species was taken by the Challenger 

 off lnosinia, Japan, in 345 fathoms (Giinther, Challenger Report, vi, Shore Irishes, lsso. <;;>). 



If the species called .1/. japonicus by Vaillant should prove to be distinct from our 

 .1/. occa, it should be remembered that Vaillant lias mentioned it under the name .1/. affinis 

 (Exp. Sci. Travailleur et Talisman. Poissons, L888, p. 51.) 



Macrurus lophotes, Alcock. An examination of this figure suggests the idea that this 

 species belongs to the genus Coryphamoides, rather than to Macrurus, the mouth being 

 terminal rather than inferior. 



Page -103: Coryphwnoideb sulcatum. Cancel the description. This species is fully 

 described on page 410 in connection with the genus Trachonurus. 



Page 406: Mystaconurus heterolepis, Alcock, 111. Zool. Investigator, Fishes, PI. in, fig. 3. 



Page 414: Add the following new species described in a paper entitled "Di una nuova 

 specie di Macruride appartenente alia fauna abissale del Mediterraneo," Zoologischer Anzei- 

 ger, \vi. No. 428, 11 Sept., 1893, p 342. 



( II ALINURA MEDITEEEANEA, Giglioli. (Figure 345A.) 



Only two specimens known, preserved in the central collection of Italian vcrtebrata in 

 the Royal Zoological Museum, Florence; ichthyological catalogues Xos. 2016,2017. They 

 were both collected by me during the first deep-sea exploration of the Mediterranean by 

 the Italian man-of-war steamer Washington off the west coast of the island of Sardinia with 

 the trawl, at station x (hit. 41° 23' 48" NT., Ion. 7° 8' 54" E., depth 2,904 meters) and station 

 xi ilat. II 18 42" N., Ion. 6° 54' 2" E., depth 2,805 meters), on the 10th of August, 1881. 

 Tiny have hitherto been mentioned with doubt as referable to Coryphamoides serratus 

 (Lowe), a species insufficiently described, of which the type specimen is lost, none having 

 been found since to fit the incomplete diagnosis given by Lowe (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1843, 91). 



These two specimens are very similar and apparently adult; both appear to be males, 

 but the genital organs are immature. They arc both almost denuded of scales. These are 

 evidently very deciduous, smooth, very slightly fluted longitudinally, cycloid; rather large; 

 some show slightly tine radiating stria'. When fresh the color of these two specimens was 

 a light pink or flesh color, the head and belly strongly tinted with violaceous black; the latter 

 on account of the intense black peritoneal lining of the visceral cavity, the former owing to 

 the deep black of the inside of the mouth and branchial chambers; the branchiostegal mem- 

 branes are also deep black. Fins colorless. Length of the first specimen, 215 millimeters; 

 of the second. 235 millimeters. The greatest height of the body is from the ventrals to the 

 first dorsal; it is less than the length of the head, and contained about 5 A times in the 

 total length. That of the head being contained about 4§ in the total. The eye is small, its 

 transverse diameter being contained about li in the length of the snout; the width of the 

 interorbital area above is equal to the length of the snout. The fore part of the bodj 

 between the eyes and the first dorsal is remarkably gibbous. 



The snout is broad, truncate, not much produced, tricuspidate; three ridges running 

 along its wide upper surface, median one gibbous; the suboeular ridges are less marked, 

 and the suborbital one is not joined to the angle of the preoperculum. 



Mouth large, lateral, subtei minal; intermaxillary heterodont with outer series of 

 strong widely set teeth and an inner villifonn baud; mandibulary teeth uuiserial, large. 



