APPENDIX. 533 



Page 391: Coclorhynchus pumiliceps, Alcock (Jourii. Asiatic Society of Bengal, LXiii, 

 Part II, 'No. 2, 1894, p. 11), a form evidently close to M. sclerorhi/nchus, was found by the 

 Investigator at station 150 in the Laccadive Sea at 719 fathoms depth. 



Page 397: Ctelorhijiichns quadricrixtatus (Alcock), 111. Zool. Incesttr/ato); Fishes. PI. ill, 

 fig. 1. 



CnlorhynrhHSJidlx-Hltplnif;. Alcock (Journ. Asiatic Society of P.engal, LXiii, Part II, No. 

 2, p. 9), was found by tlie Iiin-stigator at station 159, Laccadive Sea, 719 fathoms. 



Cwlorhynchus atlanticns. The Prince of Monaco obtained a specimen at Fnnchal, 

 Madeira, in 1889. 



Page 400: Ccelorhynchiis Joponicus, Schlegel. This species was taken by the Challenger 

 off Inosima, Japan, in 345 fathoms (Giinther, Challenger Report, VI, Shore Fishes, 1880, 63). 



If the species called M. japoiticus by Vaillant should prove to be distinct from our 

 M. oeca, it should be remembered that Vaillant has mentioned it under the name 2f. affini.s 

 (Exp. Sci. Travailleur et Talisman, Poissons, 1888, p. 51.) 



Macrurus lophotes, Alcock. An examination of this figure .suggests the idea that this 

 species belongs to the genus Coryplucnoides, rather than to Macrurm, the mouth being 

 terminal rather than inferior. 



Page 403: Corypluvnoldes sulcatus. Cancel the description. This species is fully 

 described on page 41(» in connection with the genus Trachomtrus. 



Page 40G: Mystaconunts lieterohpis, Alcock, 111. Zool. Investigator, Fishes, PI. ill, fig. 3. 



Page 414: Add the following new species described in a paper entitled "Di una uuova 

 specie di Macruride appartenente alia fauna abissale del Mediterraneo," Zoologischer Anzei- 

 ger, xvi, No. 428, 11 Sept., 1893, p 342. 



CHALINURA MEDITERRANEA, Giglioli. (Figure 345A.) 



Only two specimens known, i)reserved in the central collection of Italian vertebrata in 

 the Eoyal Zoological Museum, Florence; ichthyological catalogues Nos. 2010, 2017. They 

 were both collected by me during the first deep-sea exploration of the Mediterranean by 

 the Italian man-of-war steamer Washington off the west coast of the island of Sardinia with 

 the trawl, at station x (lat. 41° 23' 48" N., Ion. 7° 8' 54" E., depth 2,904 meters) and station 

 XI (lat. 410 18' 42" N., Ion. CP 54' 2" E., depth 2,805 meters), on the 10th of August, 1881. 

 They have hitherto been mentioned with doubt as referable to Coryphwnoides serratm 

 (Lowe), a species iiisufticiently described, of which the type specimen is lost, none having 

 been found since to fit the incomplete diagnosis given by Lowe (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1843, 91). 



These two specimens are very similar and apparently adult; both appear to be males, 

 but the genital organs are immature. They are both almost denuded of scales. These are 

 evidently very deciduous, smooth, very slightly fluted longitudinally, cycloid; rather large; 

 some show slightly fine radiating striiv. When fresh the color of these two specimens was 

 a light pink or flesh color, the head and belly strongly tinted with violaceous black ; the latter 

 on account of the intense black peritoneal lining of the visceral cavity, the former owing to 

 the deep black of the inside of the mouth and branchial chambers; the brauchiostegal mem- 

 branes are also deep black. Fins colorless. Length of the first specimen, 215 millimeters; 

 of the second, 235 millimeters. The greatest height of the body is from the ventrals to the 

 first dorsal; it is less than the length of the head, and contained about 5.J times in the 

 total length. That of the head being contained about 4| in the total. The eye is small, its 

 transverse diameter being contained about li in the length of the snout; the width of the 

 iuterorbital area above is equal to the length of the snout. The fore part of the body 

 between the eyes and the first dorsal is remarkably gibbous. 



The snout is broad, truncate, not much produced, tricusi)idate: three ridges running 

 along its wide upper surface, median one gibbous; the subocular ridges are less marked, 

 and the suborbital one is not joined to the angle of the preopenaihim. 



Mouth large, lateral, subterniinal: intermaxillary heterodont witli outer series of 

 strong widely set teeth and an inner villi form band; mandibulary teeth uniserial, large. 



