Measurements of Specimen 



Height of body 50 mm 



Length.. „ (without caudal) 72 „ 



., head 30 „ 



„ snout 12 „ 



Diameter of eye 8 „ 



Length of ventral 45 ,. 



„ pectoral 24 „ 



Longest ray of dorsal 55 „. 



Fam. LAMPRID.^ 



Lampris immacuiata, asp 



(Plate XXII.) 

 Br. 1.3. D. 54. A. 36. V. 14. 



Depth of body a little under | the length (exluding caudal), 

 length of head 3 if, diameter of eye about 5? in lengtli of head 

 and more than h the interocular space. 



Pectorals rounded, if in length of head Anal has the first 

 rays longer than those immediateh' succeeding them Other 

 fins as in L. liina. 



The paired and unpaired fins are of a deep red colour. Snout,, 

 lips and region anterior to the eyes of the same colour, but less 

 marked. Edge of pre-operculum, of operculum and posterior 

 margin of gill opening, tongue and throat, including inner 

 surface of rather long gill rankers and branchial arches, are 

 similarly coloured. Body of a dark steel blue colour above, 

 lighter and greenish below, the whole, including- that part of 

 the head posterior to the eye, with a suffused rose red colour 

 There are no white spots on any part of the body 



The lateral line is well marked, each scale, with a single 

 unbranched tube, being of a bright red colour. These spots 

 are continued forward from the anterior end of the lateral line 

 ill two directions, one arching upwards and forward to the top 

 of the head, the other forward over the eye to the end of the 

 snout. These, about half-a-dozen in each line, were of the 

 same deep red as the pierced scales of the lateral line, and had a 

 simple mucous pore in the centre. 



The tongue is narrow, free and smooth as Lowe describes it 

 ill his specimen, and without the asperities noted by other 

 obser\-ers. No large scale was found before the anal, but the 

 pits above and below the caudal peduncle were present. The- 

 pyloric caecae were very numerous. 



