APPENDIX. 535 



MALACOCEPHALUS SUBL^VIS, (Vaillaut.) 



CurypkuHoiUiii ayualin, Vaillant, Ilxp. Sci. Tiavailleur i^t Talisman, 1888, }>. 225 (part), PI. xix, ligs. 2, 



2a-c. 

 Coriiplia'noidex stibhtwis, Vaillant, op. cit.. p. 38(i. 



Vaillaut (p. 225) describes at length, under the uame Corypluenoides mqualis, ti.slies 

 taken off the coast of Morocco and the (Jape Verdes, which he subsequently (p. 38G) says 

 are more closely allied to Mxlacocephaliis Iwvis, (ithr., and for which he propo.ses tlie name 

 Goryph (cnoides s tibln'v in. 



Page J:20: Bathjifiad un fi( r I't'sceiix, Alcock (Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Lxiii, Part 

 II, No. 2, 1894, p. 14), was obtained by the Invcstk/ator at station 150, off the INIaldives, in 

 719 fathoms. 



l'age42C: Lepidopnettd y;(rtc»/«^(, ( iiinther, was taken by the 67(rt//e»_(/e*' in the Autarctic 

 station 145A, off Prince Edward Island, 310 fathoms (Ohalleuger lleport, vi, IS, PI. xxx, 



lig. 0). 



CHASCANOPSETTA, Alcock. 



ChascanopseUa, Alcock, Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, LXiii, Part ir, No. 2, \>. 14, 1894. 

 C. lugubris, Alcock (/. c, PI. Vi, fig. 4), was obtained by the Inreatindfor in the Bay of 

 Bengal, station 162, 145 to 250 fathoms. 



PCECILOPSETTA, Gthr. 



F. maculosa, Alcock (Jouru. Asiatic Society of Bengal, LXiii, Part il, No. 2, p. 16, PI. 

 VII, fig. 1), was obtained by the Iiirrstif/itfor in the Bay of Bengal, station 162, 14.") to 250 

 fathoms, and ]'. prwloiu/a (I. v., p. 17, PI. Vii, tig. 3) at station 151, off Colombo, in 142 to 400 

 fathoms. 



Page 439: After Lepidorhomhus megastoma add: 



LEPIDORHOMBUS BOSCH (Ris.so). 



rieuronecles Boscli, Risso, Ichth. Nice, 319, Pi. \'II, tig. 33. — Bonapaute, Faun. Ital. Pesce. — Canestrinm, 



Arch. Zoiil., I, 19, tav. ii, tig. 2. 

 Mipjioglossiis lioscii, CuviEi!, Rfegne Animal. — Risso, Eur. Mi^rid., iii, 246. 

 lihomhus liuscii, CuviEK, Rt'gue Animal, 2(1 ed., 341. — GuNTHKR, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec, 1889, 419. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (without caudal), the length of 

 the head nearly one-third; .s<;alcs rather small, with the posterior margin ciliated, truncatt'(l 

 or rounded, covering nearly the whole head, the interorbital space and maxillary included; 

 iuterorbital space extremely narrow ; the diameter of the eye is oue-third the length of the 

 head. Lateral line with a sub-semicircular curve above the pectoral fin. Lower jaw prom- 

 inent; maxillary nearly one-half the length of the head. The teeth in the jaws form nar- 

 row bands; vomerine teeth in small number (two or three), implanted somewhat behind tiie 

 frout margin of the vomer. Tiie lower eye a little in advance of the upper. The dorsal 

 tin terminates at a distance from the caudal, which is somewhat less than the depth of the 

 free portion of the tail; its longest rays are at the commencement of tlie posterior third of 

 the fin, where they are two fifths of the length of the head, and rather shorter than the 

 pectoral. No spine before the anal. Body very light colored, without spots; two large 

 rounded deep black spots occupy the posterior portion of the dorsal and anal tins (Giinther). 



Kadial formula: D. 80-81; A. 63-65; L. lat. So. 



This species was added to the British fauna by the discovery in 1889 of several speci- 

 mens off the southwest coast of Ireland at 150 to 315 fathoms, the lai'gest being 14 inclies 

 jn length, the smallest about half that size. 



"This species," writes Dr. Giinther, "originally discovered in the Mediterranean, was, 

 probablj' owing to the small size or condition of the specimens, inaccuiately described and 

 figured by Risso, Bonaparte, and Canestrini. The scales were represented much too large, 

 and the notes on the dentition were vague. Hence it was referred by myself to the genus 

 ArnoglosxHS at a time when no specimens were available for examination (Fish, iv,416), but 



