Holt and Caldeewood — Report on the Rarer Fishes. 455 



Sub-genus Coryplisenoides. 



Macrurus rupestris, Grunner. (Deep-sea.) 



(PI. XLiii., fig. 2 ; and fig. in text.) 



Berg Lax, Strom, " Sond.," i., p. 267. 



Cori/phcenoides rupestris, . . Gunner, " Trondhj. Selsk. Skrift.," vol. iii., p. 50, 



tab. iii., fig. 1. 

 ,, „ . . CoLLETT, " Forbandl. Vidensk. Selsk. Christ.," 1880, 



p. 70. 

 . LiLLjEBOEG, " Sverig. och. Norg. Fisk.," p. 259. 

 . Day, " Fish. Gt. Brit.," vol. i., p. 335, pi. xciii. 

 . GuNTHER, "Challenger," vol. sxii., p. 138. 

 . Holt, "Proc. Roy. Dub. Soc," vol. vii., p. 122. 

 , NiLSSON, "Skand. Faun. Fisk.," p. 600. 

 , GiJNTHER, "Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus.," vol. iv., p. 396. 

 Macrourus Stroemii, . . . Reinhardt, " K. dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Afhandl.," 



vol. viii., p. 129. 



)> n 



)? n 



Macrurus rupestris, 



Macrurus norvegicus, . 

 Coryphcenoides norvegicus, 



Localiti) and Distribution. — Four exarajDles, varying in length from 67'2 to 

 96'4 cm. (26| to 38 inches), were trawled at a depth of 500 fathoms, 54 miles off 

 Achill Head, Co. Mayo, on the 10th July, 1890. 



The species was thus for the first time added to the British Fauna, but having 

 previously been taken in the deep channel between the Faroe and Shetland 

 Islands, it cannot be said to be new to British waters. So far as the horizontal 

 range is ascertained, the species appears to to be confined to the North Atlantic, 

 occurring in the waters of both hemispheres. 



Thus, on the eastern side, it has been recorded from Finmark and the North 

 Cape (Nilsson), from various parts of the Scandinavian coast (Collett and Lillje- 

 borg), and from the Faroe channel (Giinther). On the western side it has been 

 taken ofE Greenland (Reinhardt), and off the N.E. coast of the United States 

 (Goode and Beau).* The species does not appear in the list of deep-sea forms 

 taken in the "Talisman" and " Travailleur" expeditions; and since the latter 

 vessels worked as far north as the Bay of Biscay it seems unlikely that the 

 species extends much further south, on tlie European side, than the British Islands, 

 but must rather be considei'ed as a northern form. 



* "Bull. Mus. Comp, Zool.," x., 1883, p. 197. 



