DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



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spaces;* seven branchiostegals; a first dorsal with about five weak spines, tlie second aud 

 aual obloug, and normal thoracie ventrals (i, 5). (Gill, MS.) 



This family is represented by a single species and a single genus — Anomalops palpe- 

 brat us (Boddaert), Giinther, known only from eight specimens, four from Amboina and 

 Manado, one from the Fiji Islands, one from the Paumoto Archipelago, and two others 

 from the New Hebrides, the types of Ogilby's recent valuable paper, ''Itedescription of 

 Anomalops palpebratus." (Eecords of the Australian Museum, Sydney, i, 1890, (59-71.) 



This form was placed by Giinther in the family Garaiuiidw, but this assignment was 

 professedly provisional, since he had never been able to examine the specimens. The origi- 

 nal assignment by Bleeker aud Kuer to the Bcryeidw was more nearly exact, but, as Dr. 

 Gill has shown, it seems to possess positive and distinctive family characters of its own, 



ANOMALOPS, Kner. 



Anomalops, Kner, Sitznngsberichte Akad. Wiss. Wieu., lviii, 1868, p. 294, pi. l, Fig. 1. 



Body oblong, covered with small rough scales. Snout very short and convex; mouth 

 very wide. Eyes very large; a glandular, elongate, and partly free, luminous organ occu- 



Anomalops palpebbatds. 



pies a hollow of the infraorbital ring below the eyes. Yilliform teeth in the jaws and on the 

 palatine bones; vomer toothless. First dorsal short; second and anal moderately long; 

 caudal forked. {Giinther.) 



According to Giinther, Anomalops palpebratus lives in gieat depths, and comes to the 

 surface at night or by accident only. "The peculiar organ below the eyes," he writes, "is 

 without doubt of the same nature and has the same function as similar structures on the 

 side of the head of other deep-sea fishes; as in Pachystomias, it is jiartly free, as if it could 

 be made to protrude out of the pit in which it lies." 



Family CARANGID^E. 



Carangini, Bonaparte, Catalogo Metodico, Pesci Eiiropei, 1876, 75. 



Carangoidei, Blkekek, Teutamen, 1859, xxiii, (Familia 100).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit Mus. ii, 1860, 417. 

 Carangida; Gill, Proc. Acail. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 430; Arr. Fam. Fishes, 1872, 8 (No. 79); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, p. 487, 1883. 



Tliis family is so little bathybial in its range that it may be passed over witli a brief 

 allusion. Tiie family includes pcrhajjs two hundred species, many of which are seniii)e- 

 lagic in habit but which, so far as is at present known, live near the shores and in the ni)per 

 water. There is no evidence that any of them breed far from the coasts, except it may by 

 Naucrates. Most of them are probably restricted in range, so far as individual migrations 



• "Nostril large, not separate from the eye by an osseous interspace." Ogilby, loc. ciU, p. 71. 



