74 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



MYCTOPHUM GRACILE, (Lutken), Goode aud Bean. 



Scopelus gracilis, I^i tken, SjiDlia Atlantica. ii, 1S92, 255, Ae;. 13. 



A species closely allied to ^[. Humholdtl, liaviiig mediolatei-al photopliores two, antero- 

 lateral two, posterolateral one, over tlie break iu the anal series, which is much in front of 

 the soft dorsal and over the middle of the anal fin, the numlier of anal photopliores being 

 .5-7-1-11-14. The pectoral is moderate, not [Kissing the second anterolateral photophore. 

 The caudal photophores are close together as in M. punctaturn. 



Eadial formula: D. 12; A. 19; L. lat. 41. 



Liitken had several specimens, presumably from the surface, taken in the following 

 localities: M. lat. l'2o, W. Ion. 34° 30'; N. lat. 2L'o 12', W. Ion. 48°; S. lat. .'350 36', E. Ion. 

 270 40'; between S. lat. 32° 40', E. Ion. 55° 20', and S. lat. 11° 50', E. Ion. 8° 10'. 



MYCTOPHUM BENOITI, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. (Figure 83.) 



Scopelus Benoistti, Cocco, Lett. s. Salmon, 12, pi. 11, fig. 4. 



Scopelus Senoiti, Bonaparte, Icon. Fauu. Ital., Peso., c. fig. 



Canestrisi, Faun, d'ltalia, Pesci, Fasc. xxxvii. — GCnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., V. 406. — Giglioli, 

 Eleuco, 100. — Baffaelb, Mitt. Zool. Stat., Naples, IX, 181, pi. vii, fig. 2. — LOtken, Spolia Atlantica, 

 1892, II, 256, fig. 14. 



The height of the body is contained 4 times in the total length (without caudal) ; the 

 head 3J. The snout is obtuse, conical, the upper and lower profiles nearly equally carved. 

 The eye is lai'ge, its diameter a little less than half the length of the head. The dorsal is 

 postmedian, nearly midway between the snout and the root of the caudal, and behind the 

 base of the ventral. The pectoral extends nearly to the end of the ventral. The photo- 

 phores are arranged as follows: ]\Iediolaterals, 2; anterolaterals, 2; posterolaterals, 2, over 

 the break in the superanal series, which is not far in advance of the vertical connecting 

 the base of the last anal rays with that of the .soft dorsal. The two anterolaterals lar apart, 

 the caudals near together, the last far below the end of the lateral line. Number of super- 

 auals, 5-(5-f-G-7. 



Eadial formula: D. 12-13; A. 17-lS; L. lat. 39-40. 



Giinther gives Norway and Greenland as the range of this species, but cites no au- 

 thority for this, and appears to have examined only Mediterranean material. The species 

 has been observed at Nice and Messina, whence the National Museum has specimens (Cat. 

 No. 40063) received from the Royal Museum of Florence. Liitken had a specimen, 40 milli- 

 meters long, from N. lat. 34° 40', W. Ion. 24° 20'. His type, as well as the Messina speci- 

 men examined by us, has a luminous xilate on the top of the caudal peduncle. 



MYCTOPHUM REINHARDTII (Lutken). 

 Scojielus lieinhardtii, LCtken, Spolia Atlantica, 11, 1892, 257, fig. 16. 



A species of Myctophum resembling M. Benoiti in general appearance, but ha\ing the 

 anterolateral photophores much closer together than in that species, the foremost being, as in 

 M. Benoiti, almost directly above the root of the ventral tin. The precaudals are well sep- 

 arated, the posterior one considerably above the anterior, and touching the extremity of 

 the lateral line. Pectoral long, falcate, extending quite to the lower mediolateral photo- 

 phore, and almost to the vertical from the vent. The number of the superanals is 4-7-1-7-8. 



Eadial formula: D. 11; A. 16. 



The two examples studied by Liitken were obtained from N. lat. 34° 22', W. Ion. 18° 

 10', and N. lat. .5° 31', W. Ion. 2;5o 1.5'. One of these had a luminous plate on the top of 

 the caudal peduncle, the other a similar plate below. 



MYCTOPHUM REMIGER, Goode and Beax, n. s. (Figure 84.) 



Depth of body is one-fourth of total Icngtli. Length of head 3| times in total length. 

 Least height of tail about two-thirds of its greatest height. Snout very .short, the upper 

 and lower profile of the head being similar; its length a little less than one-half diameter 



