292 DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Vinciguerria sanzoi, Jespersen and Taning. 



Vinciguerria lucetia (part), Brauer, 1906, ' Valdivia ' Tiefsee-Fische, p. 97. 



Vinciguerria sanzoi, Jespersen and Taning, 1919, Vid. Medd. Dansk nat. For. lxx, p. 218, pi. xvii, 



figs. 2 and 5; 1926, Rep. Danish Ocean. E.xped. 1908-10, 11, A, 12, pp. 22, etc., figs. 



St. 295. 25. viii. 27. 5° 30' 30" N, 17° 45' 00" W. Young-fish trawl, 2500-2700 (-0) m. : i 

 specimen, 47 mm. 



St. 297. 28. viii. 27. 12° 08' 00" N, 20° 53' 30" W. Young-fish trawl, 200-300 (-0) m. : 2 

 specimens, 20-27 ''■^^n- 



Hab. Atlantic. 



Vinciguerria lucetia (Garman). 



Maurolicus lucetius, Garman, 1899, Mem. Mus. Camp. Zool. xxiv, p. 242, pi. J, fig. 2. 



? Vinciguerria lucetia (part), Brauer, 1906, ' Valdivia' Tiefsee-Fische, p. 97. 



Vinciguerria lucetia, Gilbert, 1908, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. xxvi, p. 237; Weber, 1913, ' Siboga' 



Fische, p. 21 ; Weber and Beaufort, 1913, Fish. Indo-Austral. Arch, u, p. 119, fig. 44; Regan, 



1916, Larval Fish. ' Terra Nova', p. 137, pi. v, figs. 6-7. 



Hab. South Atlantic; Indo-Pacific. 



Vinciguerria raoulensis (Waite). 



Gonostoma raoulensis, Waite, 1910, Trans. N. Zealand Inst. XLU, p. 373, pi. xxxv, fig. i. 

 Vinciguerria raoulensis, McCulloch, 1923, Rec. Austral. Mus. Xiv, p. 115. 



Hab. Kermadec Islands. 

 Perhaps identical with V. lucetia. 



Vinciguerria nimbarius (Jordan and Starks). 



Zalarges nimbarius (Jordan and Williams), Jordan and Starks, 1895, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2), 



V. P- 793. pl- Ixxvi. 



Vinciguerria nimbarius, Gilbert, 1908, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. xxvi, p. 237. 



Hab. Pacific. 



Apparently very close to V. poweriae. 



Genus Photichthys, Hutton 



Phosichthys, Hutton, 1872, Cat. Fish. N. Zealand, p. 55. 

 Photichtliys, Hutton, 1873, Trans. N. Zealand Inst, v, p. 269. 



Cleft of mouth wide; maxillary with a single series of small, subequal teeth; prae- 

 maxillary with two strong canines in addition to the small teeth ; mandible with strong 

 acute teeth and with smaller teeth in the interspaces ; a pair of teeth on the vomer ; each 

 palatine with a single series of curved teeth, the anterior of which are enlarged; ptery- 

 goids toothless. Suborbital not enlarged. Scales present. Photophores conspicuous. 

 Dorsal 12-13 ; origin behind pelvics but well in advance of anal. Adipose fin developed. 

 Anal 23-26 ; origin well behind last dorsal ray. 



A single species. 



