16 BEEYCID^. 



3. Berjrx decadactylus. 



Beryx decadactylus, Ciiv. ^- Val. iii. p. 222 ; Barker- Webb ^ Berthelot, 



Hist. Nat. lies Canar. Ichthyol. p. 13. pi. 4. 

 Berj'x splendens, Lowe, Cumhr. Phil. Trans, vi. tab. 3 (not descript.). 



1^-8 (7)- T^-WT,- A.JEtp- V.1/10. L. lat. 64-65. 

 L. transv. 34-35. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 2| 

 in the total. The upper maxillary bone reaches to below the middle 

 of the eye. Operculum with an indistinct spine. 



Sea of Madeira. 



4. Beryx splendens. 



Lmce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 142 ; Cambr. Phil. Tram. vi. p. 197 

 (not figure) ; Fishes of Iladeira, p. 47. pi. 8. 



B. 8(9). D.^^. A.^^. V. 1/10-13. L. lat. 71-76. 

 L. transv. 8/20. Cajc. pylor. 25-30. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head, and 

 three to four times in the total. The upper maxillary bone reaches 

 to below the middle of the eye. Operciilum with two feeble spines. 



Sea of Madeii'a. 



a. Adult. Madeira. Presented by the Eev. R. T. Lowe. 

 h. Large specimen : stuffed : not good state. Madeira. From the 

 Collection of the Zoological Society. 



5. Beryx delphini. 



Cur. ^- Val. ix. p. 454 ; Cur. Rrijne Anim. 111. Poiss. pi. 14. f. 3. 

 B. 10. D. ^. A. ? V. 1/13. Ciec. pylor. 24. 

 Taken from the stomach of a dolphin in the Indian Ocean. 



6. POLYMIXIA. 



Polymixia, Lowe, Trans. Cambr. Phil Soc. 1838, vi. p. 198. 

 Nemobrama, Valenc. in Barker- Webb Sf Berthelot, Ichth. lies Canar. 

 p. 40. 



Muzzle short, with nearly horizontal cleft of mouth, and the upper 

 jaw longest ; eye large. Villiform teeth in both the jaws, on the 

 '•omer, the palatine and pterygoid bones. Four branchiostegals. 

 Two barbels on the throat. Operculum without spine ; praeoperculum 

 indLstinetly crenulated. Scales moderate. One dorsal ; ventrals 

 with six or seven rays. Caudal forked ; anal with thi'ee or four 

 spines. 



Atlantic Ocean. 



