594 



SCANDIN.WIAX I'lSIIK.S. 



is lilack at tlic margin. Tiie inside <jf' tlic inoutli is 

 wliite, the Ijranchial cavity black. 



Macnirus kcris has a wide oeognii)hic;il range, l)ut 

 is still extrenielv i-are in the niuseiuns. It M-as disco- 

 vered off Madeira liv I>o\vi:, and the iiritisli Museum 



at tiie Ix'ginning of JJcccndxT, 1S71. Long before this 

 time, liowever, tlie Museum (jf Gothenburg had received 

 a specimen througli Mr. Deyenbekg. This specimen 

 was dropped on the shore near Lysekil by a seagull on 

 the l(}tli of Novemlier, 1832; and lias since licen de- 



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V. 



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Fig. 141. Maminis la'cis. seen from tlie side, togellier willi (lie fore]),!!-!, seen from below. - .j of llie imtiiral size. Found at Lysekil, on 

 llie lOtli of November, 1852, by Deyenberg. Tlie [iroperty of (lie Natural History Museum of Gotlienburg. 



has acquired another specimen from the same locality j scribed at length by M.\lm in liis Goteborr/s och Bohus- 



through JoHXSON. But the species was not recognised , Idns Fauna". Finallv the species has again been found 



again until LCtken described a specimen that was cast 1 oft' the coa.st of Pernanibuco, where tlie Challenger Ex- 



ashore on the north of.lutlaiid near the Skaw and found ])edition took a specimen at a depth of 350 fathoms''. 



Fam OPHIDIIDiE. 



Ijodii nf n romprcssrd tadjHjle-like or Ed-like form, ic'itJi cloi/i/ated, more or less tiiiip-Jiki' foil^ ami ctirered irith 

 thin, cycloid scales or naked. All tlie rertkal Jins confluent (no distinct caudal, no anterior dorsal hn). Teetli as 

 a rule present hath in tlie jaws and on the vomer and palatine hones. Gill-ojienings lari/e: the hranchiostegal mem- 

 hranes more or less united to each other, but free from the isfhtnus. Branchiostegal rays usualli/ ■'? or 7'. Pseudo- 

 branchue and air-Jiladder //encralli/ preseni''. J'l/loric appendaiies oiili/ slif/hfli/ developed or irantiiifj. 



This family consists in great part of deep-sea the complete structure of the .\nacanthine type also 

 fishes; and the reductions characteristic of a life of this ^ aft'ects those tishes of this familv which live in sub- 

 nature appear here too. Brt the same reductions in j terranean chasms or lead a kind of coinraensual life 



" By (lie kindness of Dr. SruxnEKO, tlie Curator of the iluseum, we have been enabled to make use of this specimen as the original 

 of our figure. 



' Whether it occur.s in the Mediterranean, is still somewhat uncertain, tliough probable. In his list of the Mediterranean fishes, how- 

 ever, GlQLiou gives only a name that might be applied (u it; and it is evidently another species that Moreal' has described under this name. 



'■ Exceptionally 6 or even 5. 



'' Often wanting, however. 



