16 BEKTCID^l?. 



3. Beryx decadactylos. 



Beryx decadaetylus, Cuv. ^- Val. iii. p. 222 ; Barker- Webb ^- Berthelot, 



Hist. Nat. lies Canar. IcJdhi/ol. p. 13. pi. 4. 

 BerjTc splendens, Lowe, Ca?nbr. Phil Trans, vi. tab. 3 (not descript.). 



B.8(7). D.^^. A.J35. 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. 



Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 142 ; Cambr. Phil. Trans, vi. p. 197 

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



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

 L. transv. 8/20. Cjbc. 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. Operculum with two feeble spines. 



Sea of Madeira. 



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

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

 Collection of the Zoological Society. 



5. Beryx delphini. 

 Ckiv. Sf Val. ix. p. 454 ; Cuv. Rbgne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 14. f. 3. 

 B. 10. D. ^. A. ? V. 1/13. Cjec. 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, Vale.nc. in Barker- Webb 8f Berthelot, Ichth. lies Canar. 

 p. 40. 



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

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

 vomer, the palatine and pterygoid bones. Four branchiostegals. 

 Two barbels on the throat. Operculum without spine ; praeoporculum 

 indistinctly crenulated. Scales moderate. One dorsal ; ventrais 

 with six or seven rays. Caudal forked ; anal with three or four 

 spines. 



Atlantic Ocean. 



