BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 223 



D. 12. A. 19. V. 8. P. 17. L. lat. 41. 



The height of the body is contained three times and eight- 

 tenths in the total length ; the length of the head four times ; the 

 diameter of the eye twice in the length of the head. Anterior 

 profile very convex ; nostrils large and inflated ; lower -jaw longer 

 than the upper ; the teeth are numerous and villif orm ; the 

 rnaxillaries reach to the end of the prseoperculum, are very 

 slender, gradually widen posteriorly, and end in an oblique curve. 

 The eye is very large. The scales are rather deciduous and 

 ciliated, very large on the opercles and broad on the lateral lines. 

 The dorsal fin is situated nearer to the snout than to the base of 

 the caudal, the two first rays are short, the first shortest ; the 

 anal the same ; the pectorals reach as far back as the ventrals, 

 which are rather in advance of the dorsal. The adipose fin is 

 broad, arched, pointed, and placed above the end of the anal ; 

 two sharp spines on the lower profile between the anal and the 

 caudal fins. Colour a brilliant and iridescent silver ; the fins 

 bright yellow. 



Torres Straits (Castelnau). 



835. Scopelus boops, Eichards. 



Myctophum hoops, Eichards., Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 39, pi. 



27, figs. 6-12. 



D. 14. A. 20. P. 15. V. 8. L. lat. 35. 



The height of the body and the length of the head about equal, 

 and one-fifth of the total length. The eye large, exceeding in 

 diameter the width of the interorbital space. The luminous 

 substance forming a csnspicuous frontal keel. The dorsal fin is 

 placed above the beginning of the ventrals ; the pectorals reach 

 the anus. The body is ornamented with a number of opalescent 

 dots with a black border. 



The sea between New Zealand and Australia (Eichards.) . 



