522 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



After Anthias, add : 



BATHYANTHIAS, Gunther. 

 Bathyanthiaa, GCNxriEU, Challenger Report, vi, 6 



"Form of the body similar to that ot .Anthias. One dorsal flu with 9 spines; anal witli 

 3 ; caudal truncated. Teeth in villiform bands, in the jaws, on the vomer and palatine bones, 

 without canines. Tongue smooth. Preoperculum liuely serrated, without projection. Scales 

 of moderate size, very finely ciliated. Branchiostegals seven" [Giinther, loc. cif.). 



A single species, Bathynnthiafi roseus (CTiintlier, loc. cit., VI. T, fig. b), was obtained by 

 the ChaUcwjer at station IL'li, off Pernambueo, in 30 to 350 fathoms. 



SYNAGROPS, Gunther. 



Melastoma, Doderi.ein, Denkschr. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, xi.vm, 1883, 5. 

 Si/nagrops, Gi'NTHer, Challenger Report, xxii. 1()2. 



Shape of tlie body rather elongate. Upper side of the head with muciferons cavities. 

 Preoperculum finely denticulated, operculum with two points. Two dorsal fins, the first 

 with 9 slender spines, the second rather short. A narrow band of villiform teeth in the 

 jaws, on the vomer and palatine bones, with the addition of a pair of canine teeth in the 

 upper jaw, and a series of similar teeth in the lower. Scales large, thin, and cycloid. Air 

 bladder present. Pyloric appendages in small number (six to seven). Pharynx and 

 peritoneal cavity black (Giinther, loc. cit.). 



The ty])e of this genus, Synaf/rops japonicus (Doderlein), Giinther, was taken ott' Tokio 

 from " very great depths." 



Page 239: Under Pn.stipomatidw add: 



PROPOMA, Giinther. 



Propoma, Gunther, Challenger Report, vi, 39; xxii, 15. 



"This genus is closely allied to Hetcrognnthodon, but differs from it in having 9 dorsal 

 spines only, in lacking the canine teeth in the upper jaw, and in having considerably smaller 

 scales on the back" [Giintlur, loc. cit.). 



Propoma roseum, Giinther (loc. cit.). This species was obtained by the ChnUenyer off' the 

 Ki Islands, at station 192, at a depth of 129 fathoms. 



I'ulyjirion, according to Capello, is found along the entire coast of Portugal, and belongs 

 to the open deep sea (Peixes de Portugal, Lisbon, 1880, 5). 



Pagje 241: Friacanthun catalufa. Add to synonymy: 

 Priacanthiis macrophlhxlmus, GiNTHER, Challenger Report, vi, Shore Fishes, 1880, 9. 



Under synonymy of Polymixia, insert Dinemus, Poey. 



Poh/mixia nohilis was taken by the Inrciiti(iator at station 115 in the Arafnra Sea, 188 

 to 220 fathoms (Alcock, Ann. and Mag. Xat. Hist., 1891, 22.i}. 



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Scorpmm percoiihs, Solander ( = <S'. harathri, FTector, Trans. N. Z. Inst., Yii, 1875, 

 245, PI. X; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xv, 1875, 80=6'. percoides, Gi'NTHER, Challenger 

 Report, XXII, 17). 



Has been found off South Australia, Tasnmnia, and New Zealand (Hector) down to the 

 depth of 000 fathoms; at Twofold Bay, 120 fathoms, and ofi' the Fijis, Cliallengcr station 

 117, in 215 fathoms (Giinther). 



Page 24C: 8corp(vnn scrofa ohesa. Vinciguerra obtained a specimen in 1879, 20 miles 

 northeast of Malta, at a deptli of 170 meters, and others nearer the shore at 80 meters. The 

 individual taken at tlie greatest d('i)tli differed from the otliers, resembling Hisso's >Scor2)(vna 

 ?«^e((, which he suggested was probably an inliabitant of considerable depths (Croeieredelle 

 Violaute,lS83,50). 



Steindachiier suggests that the Scorpd'iiii ocellnta of Lowe, described from Madeira, is 

 the young of IScorpwna lutea. 



Page 248: Ilelicolenun. The range of this genus should be stated as Mediterranean 

 and North Atlantic. 



