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mentions that " tlio largest is twelve inches," but neither 

 of the specimens untler consideration exceed five inches in 

 length 5 one of them, however, being in a very perfect 

 condition, I am enabled to draw up a more detailed description 

 than I have yet seen, which should prove of interest to 

 Australasian ichthyologists. 



Misled by its outward superficial resemblance, and perhaps 

 in some degree influenced by the knowledge that it evidently 

 resides normally at a considerable depth, l)rs. Bleeker and 

 Kner placed it among the Berycido'., but as Dr. Giinther very 

 rightly observes " the different character of the fins," and, I 

 may add, the number of the branchiostegal raj's, preclude the 

 possibility * f its admissicm into that family, but no more am 

 I able to agree with Dr. Giinther as to its Carangoid affinities. 



Appended is a full generic and specific diagnosis. 



Anomalops. 

 IT('terop]ifhalmus,'^lMee^.,Ysi\\n. Ichth. Ins. Manado,p. 42 (1850). 

 Anomahyps, Kner, Sitz, Ak. Wien, Iviii. p. 294 (18G8). 



Branchiostegals seven : pseudobranchire well developed. Body 

 oblong, more or less compressed. Cleft of moiith of moderate 

 depth. Eyes lateral, very large: an oblong, elongate, glandular, 

 free, luminous organ occupies a depi'esion in the infraorbital 

 ring. Villiform teeth on the jaws and palatine bones : vomer 

 toothless. Two dorsal fins ; the first short with weak spines, 

 the second and the anal of moderate length : anal with two 

 short spines. Scales small and rough. 



AnOMALOPS PALPEBRATUS.f 



Sparus palpehratus, Bodd., in Pallas N. Nord. Beitr, ii. p. o5, 



tab. iv. ff. 1, 2. 

 Bodianus pcdpehratus, Lacep., iv. p. 28(J. 

 Ileterophthalmus kafoptrmi, Bleek., Faun. Ichth. Ins. Manado, 



1 c. ; Faun. Ichth. Ins. Amboina, p. V) ; Atl. Ichth. tab. 



ccclv. fig. 1. 

 Anonialopx yni'ffii, Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wien, 1. c, tab. i. fig. 1. 

 AnoniaJopx palpehrntiig, Giinth., Fisch. d. Siidsee, p. 142, taf. xci. 



fig. A ; Voy. Challenger, Deep-sea Fishes, xxii. p. 41. 



B. vii. D. 5. l/13-lo (16). J A. 2/11-13. V. 1/5. V. 18. C. 20. 



Length of head four, height of body below intraidorsal space 

 three and four-fifths in the total length ; breadth of head 



* Having been used by Blanchard for a genus of Coleopterous Insects 

 five years previously, the name is inadmissable. 



1 1 am indebted to Dr. Giintlier for kindly cnrrecting hy letter my 

 mistake of name, even tliough I had previously discovered the original 

 name. (See P.L.S. N.S.W. iv. (2) p. 312.) 



X Giinther, op. cit. 



