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Gempylus, C'uv. Val. 



Body much elongate, compressed, almost scaleless. Eye large. The first dorsal 

 continuous, mth thirty and more spines, and extending on to the second. Six finlets 

 behind the dorsal and anal; ventrals rudimentary. Several strong teeth in the jaws, 

 and some small ones on the posterior part of the palatine bones. 



The single species known, Gempylus serpens, figured by Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 on pi. cexxi., and by myself in Fische d. Siidsee, taf. Ixviii. fig. B, has been rarely 

 obtained at the Canary Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, and near the Society and 

 Sandwich Islands. It is generally reported to be an inhabitant of great depths, but 

 nothing positive is known as to its vertical range. 



Very young specimens are not rarely found in the open sea ; their changes during 

 growth have been observed by Liitken.' 



Family Carangid.«. 



Anomalops, Knor. 



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

 very wide. Eyes very large; a glandular, elongate, partly free, luminous organ occupies 

 a hollow of the infraorbitid ring below the eyes. Villiform teeth in the jaws and on the 

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

 caudal forked. 



Anomalops palpehratus. 



Sparus palpehratus, Bodda?rt, in Pallas N. Nord. Beitr., ii. p. 55, tab. iv. figs. 1-2. 

 Hetero2Mhamui< liatoptron, Bleck., Act. Soc. Sc. Ind. Nederl., L; Manado en Makass., p. 42. 

 Aiiomalups ijrscffei, Kner, Sitzungsb. Akad. Wien, 18G8, Iviii. p. 294, tab. i. fig. 1. 

 Anomalops palpebratus, Giinth., Fisch. d. Siidsee, p. 142, taf. xci. fig. a. 



D. 5 I 15-16. A. 13. V. \. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is two-sevenths of the 

 total ; the large eye is only two-fifths of the length of the head. The maxillary extends 

 to behind the middle of the eye. Prseoperculum finely denticulated. Nearly uniform 

 blackish. 



Of this singular fish only six specimens are known, viz., four from Amboina and 

 Manado, one from the Fiji Islands, and one from the Paumoto Archipelago. The largest 

 is 12 inches long. This fish lives evidently in great depths, and comes to the surface 



1 A". Dansk. Vidernk. Selsk. Skriv., xii., 1880, p. 456, tab. iii. figs. 5-8. 



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