136 
Habitat: Banda Sea (2798 m.)! — Indic: tropical part to 
New Amsterdam. Atlantic from North Cape to Cape of Good 
Hope, from North America to Brasil. 
4. Valenciennellus Jordan & Evermann. 
(JorpDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes of North & Middle America I. 1896, p. 577). 
Elongate, strongly compressed, scaleless. Luminous organs 
on head; a ventral series between isthmus and ventrals and 
between ventrals and anal, the organs touching each other. A 
more lateral series of distant organs beginning at isthmus and 
ending at some distance before ventrals. Between origin of anal 
and caudal 5 groups of organs on rather large black patches. 
Head strongly compressed. Gape of mouth wide, very oblique, 
bordered superiorly by the broad, curved maxillary, which 
receives anteriorly the slender intermaxilla. Mandibles promi- 
nent, enclosed, very broad posteriorly with a prominent posterior 
inferior angle, which is the most prominent part of the ventral 
profile of the head. Jaws with a series of minute teeth, curved 
backward. Origin of short dorsal above the anterior rays of 
the long anal, which reaches behind the vertical through the 
adipose fin. Pectorals below the middle of the height, their 
base below the weak operculum. Ventrals short, before middle 
of body. Caudal emarginate. Gillmembranes free from isthmus. 
I. Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esm.). 
Maurolicus tripunctulatus Esmark, Vidensk. Selskaps Forhandl. Christiania, 1870, 
p. 488. 
Maurolicus tripunctulatus Liitke, Spolia Atlantica, Scopelini, 1892, p. 269. 
Valenciennellus tripunctulatus Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North & Middle 
America I, 1896, p. 578. 
> Valenciennellus stellatus Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. Tiefseefische, 1906, p. 100. 
Valenciennellus tripunctulatus Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische, 1913, p. 20. 
Di 7s AUP Asy Ee lOs NV ei7. 
Height 3%/,, head 3'/,—37/,, eye 2'/,, about equal to snout. 
Gape of mouth very oblique, not very far from vertical. Origin 
of dorsal opposite to first rays of anal, in the middle of the 
length. Pectorals about ?/, of the length of the head, reaching 
to ventrals, which are short. Scales wanting. Both jaws with 
minute teeth. No teeth on vomer and palatines(?). Luminous 
organs: 16—17 organs, touching each other, in a ventral series 
between isthmus and ventrals. A lateral series of 10, four of which 
