NH. i;'.or,. JAl'ASESE liEIlYCOll) FISIIKS .lOllDAX AND FOWLEH. 3 



thyidfB and Holocentrid&\ One or more of suborbital bones, with 

 an internal lamina supporting the globe of the eye. Anterior vertebne 

 without transverse processes; all or most of the ri])s inserted on the 

 transverse processes, where these are developed. 



a. Scales ctenoid; teeth villifonn (Hi jaws, palatines, and vomer; verteline24; muzzle 

 short; chin projectin.o:; ])reoi)ercle spineless; opercles serrated; dorsal spines 4 

 to 7, graduated; anal rays IV, 26 to 80; ventrals I, 10 Beryx, 1. 



1. BERYX" Cuvier. 

 i>Vr//,i- CuviEK, Regne Anim., 2d ed., II, 1829, p. 151 {(Iccadactijlm). 



Body deep, compressed, covered with rather large, ctenoid scales, 

 Avhich are regularly arranged. Abdomen trenchant, but without 

 enlarged scutes. Head large, with thin bones and high ridges with 

 deep nuiciferous cavities. Snout short, the mouth oblique, the chin 

 prominent; eye large; both jaws, vomer, and palatines with villiform 

 teeth. Opercles serrated, the opercle usually with spine; preopercle 

 unarmed. C'audal forked; anal spines 4, soft rays 26 to 30; dorsal 

 continuous, with 4 to (3 spines; ventrals with about 10 soft rays. Air 

 bladder simple. Pyloric ct\?ca numerous. Deep-sea tishes, beautifully 

 colored, chiefly scarlet. 



{jUpvB,^ Beryx, a Greek name of some tish, taken b}^ Gesner from 



Varinus.) 



(t. Scales in lateral line 64 to 65 ; 1 ). I V, 16 to 19 dccadaciylm, 1. 



(tit. Scales in lateral line 71 to 76; D. IV, 13 to 15 Kplendens, 2. 



I. BERYX DECADACTYLUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Benjx di'cadadiilm Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. I'oiss., Ill, 1829, p. 222; 

 Madeira or Portugal. — Poey, Synopsis, p. 297. — Goode and Bean, Oceanic 

 Ichth., 1895, p. 175. — Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, 1, 1883, 

 p. 12; Tokyo. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 58; Tokyo.— Jordan and 

 EvERMANN, Fish N. and M. Amer., I, 1896, p. 844. — Steindachner, Ichth. 

 Bericht., IV, p. 1, pi. i; Canary Islands. 



Head, 2^; depth, 2i; D. IV, 16 to 2(»; A. HI or IV, 27 to 30; P. 11, 

 14 to 1.5; V. I, 9 to 10. Lateral line 1(» to 11, 70 to 73 (60 to 65) with- 

 out caudal scales 21 to 22. Body oblong, considerably compressed, 

 its height greatest at the origin of the dorsal; scales sharply ctenoid, 

 with a strong middle keel. The maxillary reaches almost to the orbit, 

 eye very large, its upper liml) impinging upon the upper profile of 

 the head, and 2i in the length of the latter; operculum with an indis- 

 tinct spine; the preorbital spine about one-third the eye; snout about 



'•Accordijig to Dr. Boulenger, the genus PempJier'n^ should be placed with the 

 Berycidfe. "Benj.r and Feniplieris agree so completely in structure, both external and 

 internal, with the sole exception of the rays in the ventral fins (1, 6 in Femphcris) 

 that I am inclined to doubt whether the difference between them should be regarded 

 as greater than that between the former and Truchichthtjs." 



