﻿THE 
  ANNALS 
  

  

  AND 
  

  

  MAGAZINE 
  OF 
  NATUEAL 
  HISTORY. 
  

  

  [EIGHTH 
  SERIES.] 
  

  

  " 
  per 
  litora 
  spargite 
  museum, 
  

  

  Naiades, 
  et 
  circum 
  vitreos 
  eonsidite 
  fontes 
  : 
  

   Pollice 
  virgineo 
  teneros 
  hie 
  carpite 
  flores 
  : 
  

   Floribus 
  et 
  pictum, 
  divse, 
  replete 
  canistrum. 
  

   At 
  tos, 
  o 
  Nymphse 
  Craterides, 
  ite 
  sub 
  undas 
  ; 
  

   Ite, 
  recurvato 
  variata 
  corallia 
  truneo 
  

   Vellite 
  muscosis 
  e 
  rupibus, 
  et 
  mihi 
  conchas 
  

   Ferte, 
  De<£ 
  pelagi, 
  et 
  pingui 
  conchylia 
  succo." 
  

  

  N.Parthenii, 
  Giannettasi, 
  Bel. 
  1 
  . 
  

  

  No. 
  37. 
  JANUARY 
  1911. 
  

  

  I. 
  — 
  The 
  Anatomy 
  and 
  Classification 
  of 
  the 
  Teleostean 
  Fishes 
  

   of 
  the 
  Orders 
  Berycjmorpki 
  and 
  Xenoberyces. 
  By 
  C. 
  TATE 
  

   Kegan, 
  M.A. 
  

  

  (Published 
  by 
  permission 
  of 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum.) 
  

   [Plate 
  I.] 
  

  

  The 
  Beiycomorplious 
  fishes 
  are 
  a 
  group 
  of 
  considerable 
  

   interest, 
  for 
  on 
  the 
  one 
  hand 
  they 
  approach 
  the 
  Porches 
  in 
  

   general 
  structure, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  they 
  retain 
  many 
  features 
  

   of 
  generalization 
  which 
  indicate 
  their 
  relationship 
  to 
  primitive 
  

   Clupeoids. 
  

  

  The 
  order 
  was 
  well 
  represented 
  in 
  Cretaceous 
  times, 
  and 
  

   the 
  fossil 
  genera 
  were 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  fourth 
  volume 
  of 
  

   Dr. 
  Smith 
  Woodward's 
  'Catalogue 
  of 
  Fossil 
  Fishes,' 
  issued 
  

   in 
  1901. 
  The 
  best 
  descriptions 
  and 
  figures 
  of 
  the 
  extinct 
  

   species 
  are 
  those 
  of 
  W. 
  von 
  der 
  Marck 
  (Palseont. 
  xi. 
  1863) 
  

   and 
  of 
  Smith 
  Woodward 
  (Palaeontogr. 
  Soc. 
  1902). 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  

   C. 
  Starks 
  has 
  given 
  a 
  useful 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  osteology 
  of 
  

   some 
  of 
  the 
  recent 
  types, 
  with 
  figures 
  of 
  the 
  crania 
  of 
  

   Polymixia, 
  Beryx, 
  Hoplostethus, 
  Monocentris, 
  and 
  Ilolo- 
  

   cenirus 
  (Proc. 
  U.S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus. 
  xxvii. 
  1904) 
  ; 
  I 
  fully 
  agree 
  

   with 
  him 
  that 
  the 
  Pempheridse 
  do 
  not 
  pertain 
  to 
  this 
  order, 
  

   but 
  to 
  the 
  Percomorphi. 
  The 
  skeleton 
  of 
  Holocentrus 
  has 
  

   been 
  figured 
  by 
  Agassiz 
  (Poiss. 
  Foss. 
  vol. 
  iv.) 
  and 
  that 
  of 
  

   Beryx 
  by 
  Giinther 
  (' 
  Challenger 
  ' 
  Deep-sea 
  Fishes). 
  

   Ann. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  N. 
  Hist. 
  Ser. 
  8. 
  Vol. 
  vii. 
  1 
  

  

  