224 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



836. Scopelus coruscans, Richards. 



Myctophum coruscans, Richards., Yoy. Erebus and Terror, p. 40, 



pi. 27, figs. 1-5. 



D. 12. A. 20. P. 17. V. 8. L. lat. 38. 



More compressed than S. hoops, tapering to a very slender tail. 

 The eye is a little removed from the profile and is placed rather 

 in advance of the middle of the cleft of the mouth. The inter- 

 orbital space is convex, without any appearance of the glandular 

 substance, which seems to be confined to the immediate border 

 of each nostril. An elevated acute mesial line separates one 

 nasal prominence from the other. The ventral fins are attached 

 at the commencement of the second third of the length of the fish, 

 caudal excluded. The dorsal commences a little behind them ; 

 and the upper surface of the tail behind the adipose fin, is covered 

 by six convex scales, without the flat surface or glandular 

 appearance of the preceding species. The posterior rays of the 

 dorsal and anal are divided to the base. No spines at the base 

 of the caudal. The scales are undulated, very irregularly and 

 sparingly toothed on the free edge, and with three basal furrows. 

 Coloured and spotted as in S. hoops. 



Australian Ocean (Richardson). 



836. Scopelus cephalotes, Casteln. 



Researches Fishes of Australia, p. 46. 



D. 9. A. 10. P. 12. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length, the 

 length of the head one-third ; form rather elongate ; upper 

 profile not very convex ; eye very large, contained three times 

 and a-quarter in the length of the head ; lower jaw considerably 

 longer than the upper one, and when the mouth is shut it appears 

 pointed and directed upwards, the cleft of the mouth being very 

 oblique ; teeth very numerous, placed very near one another, 

 and directed backwards ; the maxillary extends further than the 



