6o8 DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN 



The sub-order x-\canthopterygii does not play the important part 



Sis, 



Fig. 465. 

 Naiicrates drictor, L. 



Fic. 466. 



Ceratias couesi, (Jill. Nat. size, 3 cm. 



Flc. 467. 

 O/ifirodcs, n.sp. No. 2. Nat. size, 3 cm. 



among the oceanic pelagic fish that it does among the bottom-fishes (see 

 Chapter VII.)- One group, however, is very important, viz. the Scombri- 



