APPKNDIX. 515 



Tiatber than assign an Atlantic species to a genns only known from tlie .South Pacific 

 it seems Jiistiliable to provisionally form a new genus for its reception, it being in our Jnilg- 

 nieut safer to overestimate diagnostic characters which are sui)i)()se(l to exist ratlier than 

 to undervalue them and withdraw attention from them uy the o[)[)osite course. 



We therefore propose for this form the generic name ManiliicKs. characterized as fol- 

 lows: Body oblong, compressed, covered witii scales except u[)on the (op of the. head and 

 upon the ridge of the back, which is rugosely warted; two rows of spots ou each side of 

 the belly close to the ventral line. Head elongate, conical, much comi)ressed, with thin 

 bones; the cheeks covered with large scales. Opercular bones thin, the mouth and gill 

 o|>enings very wide Under jaw for the most part incduded, armed with a single row of 

 sharp conical teeth with small ones between them and a double i"ow of eight smaller, but 

 similar ones in front. Upper jaw with a single row of teeth in front similar to those in the 

 lower jaw, followed on either side by a few very long teeth with others smaller behind. 

 Vomer with a^ few teeth; a row of minute sharp teeth on the palatines, and a row of teeth 

 on the en toptery golds as well as a small similar patch on the upper side of the tongue. Eye 

 moderate. Dorsal in the ndddle of the back over the si)ace between the \cntral and the 

 anal. Pectoral and ventral well dcvelo|icd, the latter narrow and siiorter than the pec- 

 toral. Anal lower than dorsal with longer base. Lateral line much as in Honoxtmiiu, 



ilANin.'Crs MADEKENSIS (Johnson). 



Diagnosis: A rtsli having tiic body elongate, compressed; its iieight is included (ii 

 tiines in its length without the caudal; the length of the head T)\- times in the same distaiuie. 

 The top of the head is scaleless, armed witii two low converging ridgi's which meet in front 

 of the orbits Cheeks with large scales; |)rolile rather steep and snout short. The eye, 

 which is round, does not reach the proi'ile: its diameter is included about ."> times in the 

 length of the head, its distance from the snout is rather more than its own diameter, and 

 from the jaw rather less. 



The lateral line begins near tiie edge of the opercle, :', of the height from the outline of 

 the back, and following gently until it reaches the middle of the height under the dorsal, 

 it then runs straight to the base of the caudal. Two rows of photophores, which are silvery 

 or pale steel blue in color, are closely set low down on each side of the belly. The up])er 

 row, on whi(di between 60 and 70 spots may be counted, begins at the throat and is con- 

 tinued to the base of the caudal, and the lower row runs along tiie isthmus b(!tween the gill 

 openings and likewise extends to the caudal. 



Eadial formula: D. 11; P. 10; V. 8; A. 3.3: (J. 111+10 + 111. 



Scales undetermined. 



This spei-ies is known from a single specimen obtained by .loimson in the market at 

 Funchal and is now at the British Museum. 



Color blackish, with two rows of silvery or [lale blue sjwts along eacii side of the belly. 



Page 10") : Axtronenthcs nUjer. Add to synonymy: 

 GiNTincii, Challenger-Report, xx.\i. Pt. ii, 38. 



Page 108: Sfoniiits hcI/uIos-ks, Alcock. A good figure is given in '• Illustrations of the 

 Zoology of H. M. 8. Invoitujatot-;' Part i, PI. va. fig. 1, Calcutta, 1892. 



Page 118: Caulopus borealis, Gill (I'roc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1802, 128), occurs in the 

 Northeast Pacific. 



Cunlopun xi'i-nt, (Mil (/. <•.), is known only from a single specimen taken off Monterey, 

 Lower California. 



Parah'pis. In the study of this geiiii.s, special attention should be given to the impor- 

 tant paper by Cristoforo Bellotti, entitled "I Paralepidini del INFcditerraneo," in the Atti 

 della Societa Italiaini di Sci. Nat., xx, fasc. 1, 1877; and his remarks in the same journal, 

 xxxiv, 1802, 34. 



