APPENDIX. 535 



MALACOCEPHALUS SIFI5L.F.VIS. (Vaillant.) 



Coryph<,noid,,< iequalh, Vaillant, Kxp. .S,i. Trnvaill.Mii- .-t Talisman, 18W, ,,. *>", (part), PI. mx, tigs. 2 

 2a-c. ' ' ■ -> 



CorjiphirnoiiJcs Kiiblu-fis, A'aii.i.ant, oji. cit... p. 3,S(). 



Vnillaut (p. 225) describes at length, under the name < Joryphtnioides wqxiaUa. fishes 

 taken off the coast of Morocco and tlie OajM; Verdes, which lie subsequently (p. ;5.S0) says 

 are more closely allied to Malacocephaltis Iwvis, (itlir., and for which he projioses the nauit! 

 Goryphwnoides .suhlwrix. 



Page 4H0: Bathiifiadux furnacem, Alcock (Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Lxiii, Part 

 II, No. 2, 1894, ]). U), was obtained by the fnrcslifidfor at station 150, off the Maldives, in 

 719 fathoms. 



Page 426: Lepidopxetta wrt.rM/rt,to,(liinther, was taken by "the Challenger in the Antarctic 

 station 345A, off Prince Kdward Island. ;)10 fatlioms ((;iialleii"er Peport, vi, IS PI xxx 

 flg.C). 



CHASCANOPSETTA, Alcock. 



Chasranojm'lta, Alcock. Journ. Asiatic So('iety of P.cngal, LXiii, Part ir, No. 2, p. 14, 1894. 

 C. luguhrk, Alcock (/. c, PI. vi, fig. 4), was obtained by the hit-eatif/ator in the Hay of 

 Bengal, station 162, 145 to 250 fathoms. 



PCECILOPSETTA, Glhr. 



I', maeulosa, Alcock (Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, lxiii, Part ii, No. 2, p. Hi, PI. 

 VII, fig. 1), was obtained by the Invest k/dtor iu the Bay of Bengal, station 1(12, 145 to 250 

 fathoms, and P. praiouiia {I.e., ]). 17, PI. vii, fig. 3) at station 151. off Ooloiiibo. in 142 to 400 

 fathoms. 



Page 439: After LepidnrhoiiiliKs megnstoma add: 



t.Kl'IOol.'HoMBU.S BOSCH (Kisso). 



rieuronecles Boscii, RL'iSO, Ichth. Ni^e, ol9, PI. \n, tig. '■'•'■i. — B<.)NapaI!TE, Faun. Ital. Pcsoc. — C.wkstrini, 



Arch. Zo.il., I, 19, tav. ii, tig. 2. 

 IIip2>og!ossus Boscii, Ci'viEit, Ri-gne Animal. — Rls.so, Kur. Merid., lU, 24t). 

 Itliomhiis Boscii, C'uviEH, Rigne Animal, 2d cd., .341. — GOnthku, Ann. .and Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec, I«89, 4I!I. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (without caudal), the length of 

 the head nearly one-third; scales rather small, with the posterior margin ciliated, truncated 

 or rounded, covering nearly the whole head, the interorbital space and maxillary included; 

 iuterorbital space extremely narrow; the diameter of the eye is one-third the length of the 

 head. Lateral line with a sub semicircular curve above the pectoral fin. Lower jaw prom- 

 inent; maxillary nearly one-half the length of the head. The teeth in the jaws form nar- 

 row bands; vomerine teeth iu small number (two or three), implanted .somewhat behind the 

 front margin of the vomer. The lower eye a little in advance of the upper. The dorsal 

 tin terminates at a distance from the caudal, which is somewhat less than the dei)th of the 

 free portion of the tail; its longest rays are at the commencement of the posterior third of 

 the fin, where they are two fifths of the length of the head, and rather shorter than the 

 pectoral. No spine before the anal. Body very light colored, without sjiots; two large 

 rounded deep black spots occupy the posterior ijortioii of the dorsal and anal fins {Giinther). 



Radial formula: D. 80-81; A. (;3-«5; L. hit. 85. 



This species was added to the British fanna by the discovery in 1889 of several speci- 

 mens off the southwest coast of Ireland at 150 to 315 fathoms, the largest being 14 inches 

 in length, the smallest about half that size. 



"This species," writes Dr. Giinther. '-originally discovered in the Mediterranean, was, 

 probably owing to the small size or condition of the specimens, inaccurately described and 

 figured by Risso, Bonaparte, and ('anestrini. The scales were represents nmch too large, 

 and the notes on the dentition were vague. Hence it was referred by myself to the genus 

 Arnoglosxus at a time when no sjiecimens were available for examination (Fish, IV,41(;), but 



