No.isoc. JAPANESE BERY coil) FISHES— JORDAN AND FOWLER. 5 



reaching the base of the third soft ray; ventrals a little in advance of 

 the dorsal but behind the pectorals and a little shorter than tlic latter 

 in leno-th; caudal forked, the lobes pointed; caudal peduncle com- 

 pressed, two-thirds to three-fourths the length of the eye; lateral line 

 hig'h, inclined concurrent with the back, and runnino- out on the base 

 of the caudal; the rudimentary caudal rays, :> or 4 sharp oraduated 

 spines above and below. 



Color in alcohol uniform pale; in life bright scarlet, silvery white 

 below. This description from two specimens, length 1(»^ inches, 

 obtained by Mr. Otaki from outside the entrance to Tokyo Bay, where 

 it is said to be not rare. Other specimens were obtained b}^ Jouy near 

 Yokohama. Form a little more slender than Atlantic specimens l)ut 

 otherwise similar. The species is known from Madeira and from the 

 Gulf stream. 



{xplendens^ shining.) 



Family 11. TRACHICHTHYID.I^.. 



This family is composed of deep-sea Ber^'coids differing from the 

 Berycida' in the short anal, shorter than the dorsal and usually with 1 

 or 2 species. The dorsal is single, the ventral rays usually 1, 6; the 

 scales various, usually rough and deciduous; the belly compressed, with 

 a serrated edge; suborbitals usually broad; vertel)ra?, 26 to 28; color 

 blackish; size, rather small. 



(t. TVachlchtJu/ina'. — Scalen large, normally formed; teeth small. 

 b. Vent normally i)laee(l, well behind the ventrals, the abdominal seme before it. 



('. Dorsal spines 7 or 8, strong, the median ones highest Cjephyrobenj.r, 2. 



cc. Dorsal spines 6, slender, graduated. Vomer toothless; opercle entire; scales 



large H(ii)h»<tet]i us, 3. 



bij. Vent inserted well forward close behind the ventrals; the abdominal serrpe 

 behind it; vomer toothless ParnlrucliirlilJii/s, 4. 



2. GEPHYROBERYX Boulenger. 

 Gephyrobery.r Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March, 11)02, ]>. 20.'> ((Jarir'ni). 



Body rather short, covered with large rough, irregular scales; ven- 

 tral ridge serrated; snout short, rounded; mouth oblique; eye large; 

 very tine teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Vent far behind ven 

 trals. Branchiostegals 8; a strong spine on the shoulder girdle; one 

 on angle of preopercle; a small one on the opercle; suborbital with 

 radiating ridges; dorsal single, with 7 or 8 spines, strong and wide 

 apart, the middle ones highest; ventral rays 1, 6; caudal forked. 

 Fishes inha))iting consideral)le depths, known from Madeira, India, 

 and Japan. The genus is allied to Trachichthys, differing in the 

 stronger and more numerous dorsal species. 



{ye^vpos^ bridge: Beryx.) 



