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hundred fathoms. A species of this genus was described, under the 

 name Gadiis lepidion, by Risso,* from Mediterranean specimens. Giin- 

 ther, who referred tlie species to the new genus Hahporphyrus in 1862,t 

 had a specimen from Madeira. Giintber publisbed preliminary notices 

 of two species, S. rostratus and H. australis, in " The Annals and Maga- 

 zine of NaturalHistory", July, 1878, pp. 18 and J 9, which were, collected 

 by the Challenger. The affinities of the four known species are indi- 

 cated below. 



Tahle of Affinities. 



Description. — Extreme length of type-specimen (No. 21,837, U. S. N. 

 M.) without caudal 0.435'^ (17^ inches), with caudal 0.48tj'" : length of 

 collateral type (No. 21,838) without caudal, 0.545°^; with caudal, 0.003"^. 

 Tbe shape of the body resembles that of the species of the genus Phycis, 

 though somewhat shorter, higber, and more compressed, its greatest 

 height contained about five times in its length (without caudal), its 

 height at the ventrals slightly exceeding one-eighth of its total length, 



* Ichthyologie de Nice, 1810, p. 118, pl.-xi, fig. 40. 



t Catalogue of tbe Acauthopterygii, Pharycgognathi, and Anacanthiui in the Col- 

 lections of the British Museum, 1862, p. 358. 



