APPENDIX. 521 



Bathyseriola cyanca. This form, (!liariicteiize<l by Alcock as a Garangld with the general 

 aspect of Cubiceps, was taken at station 120 of tlie Investigator, in the Bay of Bengal, at a 

 depth of 240 to 276 fathoms (Alcock, Ann. and JMag. Nat. Hist., .Tnly, 1891, 23). 



I'age 222: Lurarm inipcrialh. See the remarks of Bellotti on Astrodcrmun elegans 

 {Cat. Soc. Nat. Sci. Nap., May 30, 1891). 



Page 229: Gapros aper, Linna'us. The fact tliat the habitat of this specues is constantly 

 in rather deep water is made more evident by the capture of a specimen off the southwest 

 coast of Ireland at a depth of ISO fathoms, coufirmini;- the observations of the French 

 explorers, who found it at from 30 to 175 fathoms ofl' the coasts of France, Spain, and 

 Morocco. Giinther is of the o])inion that the stragglers which have been found from time 

 to time in considerable numbeis along the coast of England came from dee]) water in the 

 adjoining region (Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., November, 1889, 417). 



Page 230: Under Ghilodipter Ida; add: 



MELANOSTOMA, Doderlein. 

 Mclanostoma, DudekleiiV, Denksclirift k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, XLViii, 1883, .5. 



Body elongate, oval in cross section. Seven gill-rakers. A small row of fine, closely- 

 set villiform teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and palatines; on either side, in advance, a 

 canine tooth in the intermaxillary; a row of canines in the upper jaw, along the inner side 

 of the dentary. Preoperculum finely toothed, operculum with two spines. Two dorsal fins, 

 the first with nine flexible rays, the second not so high. Scales large, thin, and cycloid; 

 head covered with scales, which are almost entirely hidden under the skin. 



A single species, M. japnnlcum, Dtrderlein [loc. cit., PI. i, fig. 2), was obtained at consid- 

 erable depths ofi' Tokio, Japan. This species is generally included in tlie list of deep-sea 

 forms, and is provisionally assigned to the family Chilodipterida'. 



Page 230: Cancel the reference to Parascombrops in the key to the Chilodipteridw. 



Page 232; F/piijoniin felcscopus occurs at great depths along the coast of Portugal, where 

 it is rare (Oapello, Peixes de Portugal, 1880, 5). 



Page 235 : Acropoma. Add to its sjnony ray Parascombrops, Alcock (see Goodeand Bean, 

 Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 231). 



Parascombrops is a synonym of Acropoma, and Parascombrops pell itcidus identical with 

 Acropoma philippincnse (see p. 235). Alcock, Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, lxiii. 

 Part 11, No. 2, 1894, p. 2. 



Acropoma philippincnse [= Parascombrops pcllucidus, Alcock) is found in the Bay of 

 Bengal in 75 to 150 fathoms. 



Page.237: Centropristis investUjatoris, Alcock, 111. /ool. Invest if/ator, Fishes, PI. x, figs. 



Prionodcs a'quidens (Gilbert). This species was obtained by the Albatross oft' southern 

 California, at station.2996, in 112 fathoms (Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M., xiii, 1890, 61). 



AntMas cos (Gilbert). The Albatross obtained numerous specimens of this species from 

 station 2996, oft' southern Califor.uia, at a depth of 112 fathoms (Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M., 

 XIII, 1890, 02). 



Page 237: Under Centropristis, add: 



CENTROPRISTIS ANNULARIS, GiJXTUKn. 

 Ccntrnprklis aniiiilaris, GiJNTiiEl:. Cli:illenger Report, i, Part, vi, Sboio Fishes, 6, I'l. i, fig. C. 



Margin of the preoperculum rounded, witliont stronger spines at the angle; opercuhm, 

 with 3 spines. Reddisli, with two incomplete black rings beliind tbe eye, with a large 

 saddle-shaped spot on the back of the trunk, and with some small black dots on the dorsal flu. 



Radial formula: I). 10/12; A. 3/7: L. lat. 60. 



A specimen. 2 inches in length, was taken by the Challenger nt station 122, offPernam- 

 buco, in 30 to 350 fathoms (Giinther). 



