372 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
Bassozetus : — Off Panama to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Gulf to 
off New York, the middle of the equatorial Atlantic, off North Australia, 
and off the Philippines, form a series of localities of use in favor of 
an American strait, but of little avail in relation to that east of the 
Mediterranean Sea. 
Diplacanthopoma : — Dredged in the Panamic, off Pernambuco, off the 
Cape Verdes, in the Arabian Sea, and in the Bay of Bengal. But remotely 
favoring either of the straits under consideration. 
Bassogigas : — Heretofore taken only in the Panamic, the Gulf of Cali- 
fornia, and off New York. 
Neobythites : — Restricting the genus somewhat narrowly it retains the 
following localities: Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, off Pernambuco, Arabian 
Sea, Bay of Bengal to the Philippines and Japan, and Fiji Islands. If, 
however, its closest allies are united with it as subgenera it ranges into the 
Panamice. 
Caletyx :— The three localities from which Catetyx has been secured, 
Messier’s Straits, the Panamic region, and off California, are all in the 
eastern Pacific. 
Acanthonus : —Only known from the localities Panamic, north of New 
Guinea, and off the Philippines. 
Lamprogrammus :—Previous to its discovery in the Panamic this genus was 
known only from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal; as now deter- 
mined it is found in two regions near the equator and about 160° apart. 
Merluccius : — Discovery of this genus in the Panamic region deprives it 
of a supposititious bipolar distribution; it had been taken off California to 
Puget Sound, off Chili to Patagonia and to Montevideo, off Florida to Labra- 
dor, Greenland, Iceland and the British Isles, off the Cape Verde Isles to 
the Mediterranean Sea, and off New Zealand. 
Antimora : — Though not yet identified from the Straits of Magellan this 
genus has been taken in the Antarctic. Its distribution bears some resem- 
blance to that of Merluccius, in that it has been reported from the Panamic, 
from California, Puget Sound, off South Carolina to the Banks of New- 
foundland, and off Montevideo. 
Lemonema:— A theory of a Caribbean strait is well supported by the 
distribution of this genus as now determined. Species have been taken in 
the Panamie, in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico to off Delaware, off 
the Canaries and the Straits of Gibraltar and off Montevideo. 
