418 SCOPELID^. 



(■with the caudal), the height of the body one-sixth. The eyes, 

 although lateral, are directed upwards and close together, the inter- 

 orbital sjjace being very narrow; their vertical diameter is longer 

 than the horizontal one, and they rest upon an adipose eyelid. 

 Mediterranean. 



Second Group. PARALEPIDINA. 



Scopeloids with the dorsal fin on the hind part of the body. 



9. PAEALEPIS. 



Paralepis, Misso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 472. 



Head and body elongate, compressed, covered with deciduous 

 scales, those of the lateral hne being the largest. Cleft of the mouth 

 very wide ; maxillary developed, closely adherent to the intermax- 

 illary. Teeth unequal in size, some in the mandible and on the 

 palatine bones being rather larger than the others ; they are arranged 

 in single series, in the intermaxillary, mandible, on the palatine and 

 pterygoid bones. Eye large. Pectoral fins well developed ; ventrals 

 small, inserted at a great distance from the pectorals, below or 

 immediately behind or in front of the dorsal fin. Dorsal fin short, 

 on the hiad part of the body ; adipose fin small ; anal elongate, 

 occupying the end of the tail ; caudal emarginate. GiU-opening 

 very wide, the outer branchial arch beset with short spine-like gill- 

 rakers ; pseudobranchiae well developed ; branchiostegals seven. Air- 

 bladder none. Pyloric appendages none. 



Mediterranean and the neighbouring parts of the Atlantic. 



This genus is evidently closely allied to Alepidosaurus. 



1. Paralepis coregonoides. 



Coregonus marajnula (!), Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 328. 

 Paralepis coregonoides, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 472. pi. 7. fig. 15 ; 

 Cuv. Sf Val. vii. p. 5l0 ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pcsc. c. fig. 



D. 10. A. 23. P. 13. V. 9. 



The length of the head is nearly one-fourth of the total (without 

 caudal). Ventral fins very short, inserted below the anterior part of 

 the dorsal. 



Mediterranean. 



2. Paralepis sphyrsenoides. 



Paralepis sphyrsenoides, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 473. pi. 7. fig. 16 ; 



Chtv. 4' Val. vii. p. 510. 

 coregonoides, Cuv. S,- Val. iii. p. 357. pi. 60 (not Risso) ; Johnson, 



Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 1862, x. p. 283. 



B. 7. D. 11*. A. 30. P. 13. V. 9. L. lat. 60. 



* Mr. Johnson has counted 14 dorsal rays, but several rays being split to the 

 base into their lateral halves, he appears to have counted them twice; the anal 



