88 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



tween autepenultimate aud ultimate anal rays. Pectoral stout aud much shorter tliau ven- 

 tral, not reaching iimch more tlian half way to its root. Scales smooth, those in the lateral 

 line somewhat enlarged, shiny, and conspicuous; the lateral line descending in a gentle cat- 

 enary curve to a point above the origin of tlie ventral. Tlie arrangement of the photo- 

 phores is very peculiar, and can best be iinderstood by an examination of the figure. There is 

 a break in the series of superanals, there being five on tlie lower part of the caudal peduncle 

 behind the extremity of the anal. There are apparently two posterolaterals, the pos- 

 terior and highest near the lateral line, and forming tlu^ beginning of a series of 8, arranged 

 in the arc of a circle, the last being the highest in the group of mediolaterals, of whieh there 

 are 4. Tliere is but one anterolateral, which is above the axil of the ventrals, sliglitly 

 behind it ami about midway between it and tlie lateral line. There is a large, triangular, 

 luminous i)atch in the space between the axil of the pectoral and the llap of tlie operculum, 

 which covers its anterior portion, and is itself decorated with a circular photophore. 

 There appears to be a luminous patch along the anterior margin of the preoperculum. 



Kadial formula: I). 11, 13; A. II, 14; L. lat. 35-3(!. 



A single specimen (Gat. No. 4.'i770, IT. S. N. "M.) was taken from the stomach of a cod 

 captured by the schooner Joseph O., of Gloucester, on Brown's Bank; anotlier by the Alba- 

 tross from Station 2127, in 19° 45' K lat., 75° 04' W. Ion., at a depth of l,(i39 tathoms. 



COLLETTIA, Goode and Bean, n. g. 



Myctophids, similar in form to AetJwprora., with a pair of luminous bands on the ante- 

 rior part of the head and another on each side in the hollow of the first infraorbital boue. 

 Scales of lateral line somewhat enlarged. Type, Myctophum Bajiiiesqiiii, Cocco. 



COLLETTIA RAFINESQUEI, (Cocco), Goode ami Beax. (Figaro 100.) 



Nyctophus Rajiucsqiin, Cocco, Alcuui Salmon., etc., 1820, .sp. 1, tab. in, lig. 7. — BoN.\rAKTE, Faun. Ital., fasc. 



XXXVII, pi. 120, fig. 2. 

 Scope! us Bafinisquii, GiJNTHER, Cat. FisU. Brit. Mus., v. 1804, 410.— Giglioli, EIcmico, 100. — Raffable, Mitt. 



Zool. Stat. Naples, ix, 183, pi. vil, fig. 7. 



A Myctophum with a stout, short body, moderately compressed; with a rounded, blunt 

 snout, very large mouth, comparatively small eye; comparatively short, triangular dorsal 

 and anal, the former entirely in advance of the latter aud inserted very far fm-ward. 



Height of body 4 times in total length; length of head 3 times. Dejith of body one- 

 fourth of total length. Caudal peduncle stout; its height nearly one-half height of body. 

 Eye moder.ately large, its diameter contained 2| times in length of head ; distance between 

 posterior margin of orbit and preopercular edge one-half diameter of eye. Snout very 

 short, obtuse, keeled, with profile abruptly declivous; its length one- third of diameter of 

 eye. Cleft of mouth slightly oblique, the lower jaw received within the upper. 



Mouth rather large, the maxillary extending to angle of preoperculum and behind orbit a 

 distance equal to two-thirds diameter of eye; its posterior extremity not dilated, and 

 entirely concealed under the scales of the cheek. Origin of dorsal over that of ventral, 

 considerably nearer to tip of snout than to root of caudal; its last ray in advance of origin 

 of anal. Ventral stout and long, reaching to origin of anal. Pectoral small, reaching to 

 root of ventral. Anal origin under the twelfth scale of lateral line; its last ray is directly 

 under adipose dorsal. Scales in lateral line, somewhat enlarged, luminous. 



Anterolaterals, 4, very irregular, the three posterior ones forming an isosceles ti-iangle, 

 as in AiltJioprora metopodamptt. ^lediolaterals, 3, arranged much as in Myctophum punc- 

 tatum. Posterolaterals, 2, arranged much as in A. cfftilgens (perhaps only one posterolat- 

 eral, if the photophore immediately below it should be recognized as belonging to the super- 

 anal series). Superanals in two groups; 5 or in the first; 4 in the last. I'recaudals, 4, 

 in nearly straight line, the last and uppermost at or near extremity of lateral line, the 

 others descending forward at an angle of approximately forty-five degrees with axis of body. 

 Kadial formula: D. 12; A. 15; L, lat. 32-35. 



