298 DISCOVERY REPORTS 



Maurolicus muelleri (Gmelin). 



Salmo muelleri, Gmelin, 1789, in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i, p. 1378. 



Argentina pennantii, Walbaum, 1792, Artedi Ichth. ed. 2, in, p. 47. 



Scopelus humboldtii (non Risso), Yarrell, 1836, British Fishes, ed. i, li, p. 94; 1841, ed. 2, II, 



p. 161 ; De Kay, 1842, Fauna Neiv York, Fish. p. 246, pi. xxxviii, fig. 121. 



Scopelus borealis, Nilsson, 1832, Prodr. Ichth. Skand. p. 20; Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1849, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss. xxii, p. 438. 



Maurolicus amethysto-punctatus, Cocco, 1838, A^. Ann. Set. Nat. 11, p. 193; Bonaparte, 1841, 

 Icon. F. Ital. (27), Indice [4] and (138), fig.; Giinther, 1864, Cat. Fish, v, p. 390; 1876, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xvii, p. 399; 1877, Trans. N. Zealand. Inst, ix, p. 472; Moreau, 1881, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, ill, p. 509. 



Scopelus pennantii, Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1849, Hist. Nat. Poiss. xxii, p. 436; Yarrell, 1859, 

 British Fishes, ed. 3, I, p. 330, figs. 

 Scopelus maurolici, Cuvier and Valenciennes, t.c. p. 439. 



Maurolicus muelleri, Kroyer, 1846-53, Danniarks Fiske, iii, p. 113, fig.; Smitt, 1895, Scandi- 

 navian Fish. II, p. 931, pi. xliv, fig. 3; Collett, 1903, Vid. Selsk. For. No. 9, p. iii. 



Maurolicus borealis, Giinther, 1864, Cat. Fish, v, p. 389; Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, Btdl. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. XVI, p. 284; Goode and Bean, 1895, Ocean. Ichth. p. 96, fig. iii ; Zugmayer, 1911, 



Res. Camp. Sci. Monaco, xxxv, p. 58. - 



Maurolicus pennanti. Day, 1880-84, Fi^h- Britain, 11, p. 49, pi. cix, fig. 2; Lilljeborg, 1889, 



Sveriges Fiskar, ill (6), p. 10; Liitken, 1892, Vid. Selsk. Skr. (6), vii, p. 267; Jordan and Ever- 



mann, 1896, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlvii (i), p. 577; Holt and Byrne, 1913, Fisheries, Ireland, 



Sci. Invest. 1912, i, p. 16, pi. ii, figs. 1-3; Jespersen and Taning, 1919, Vid. Medd. Dansk 



nat. For. lxx, p. 220; Barnard, 1925, Ann. S. Afric. Mus. xxi, p. 151 ; Jespersen and Taning, 



1926, Rep. Danish Ocean. Exped. 1908-10, 11, A, 12, p. 40, figs. 



Maurolicus australis. Hector, 1875, Trans. N. Zealand Inst, vii, p. 250, pi. xi. 



Maurolicus parvipinnis, Vaillant, 1888, Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, 1882-3, vi> Zool. Poiss. p. 17, 



pi. ii, fig. 3. 



Gonostoma australis, Hutton, 1876, Trans. N. Zealand Inst, viii, p. 215. 



} Maurolicus borealis. Holt and Byrne, 1907, Trans. Linn. Sac. Zool. x, p. 194, fig. i. 

 Triarcus australis, Waite, 1910, Trans. N. Zealand hist, xlii, p. 387, pi. xxxviii. 



.'' Cyclothone sp., Fage, 1910, Ann. Inst. Ocean. Monaco, i (7), p. 7, figs. 3-5. 

 Maurolicus japonicus, Ischikawa, 1915, _7. Coll. Agric. Tokyo, vi, p. 183, pis. xii, xiii. 

 Maurolicus pennanti australis, McCulloch, 1923, Rec. Austral. Mus. xiv, p. 114, pi. xiv, fig. i. 



St. 257. 24. vi. 27. 35° 01' 00" S, 10° 18' 00" E. Young-fish trawl, 25o(-o)m. : i specimen, 

 II mm. 



St. WS 91. 8. iv. 27. 52°53'4S"S, 64° 37' 30" W. Commercial otter trawl, 191-205 m.: fine 

 dark sand and shells, i specimen, 30 mm. 



St. H (Cape trawler). 8. vi. 27. 34° 04' 00" S, 17° 36' 00" W. Commercial otter trawl, 292- 

 402 m. : 9 specimens, 35-50 mm. Taken from the stomach of Zeus capensis. 



St. M (Cape trawler). 9. vii. 27. 33° 42' 00" S, 17° 29' 00" E. Commercial otter trawl, 310- 

 402 m. : 4 specimens, 38-50 mm. Taken from the stomach of Merluccius. 



Depth of body 3! to 4^ in the length, length of head 3 to 3;^. Snout shorter than eye, 

 diameter of which is 2f to nearly 3 in length of head and about twice the interorbital 

 width. 25-27 gill-rakers on lower part of the anterior arch. Dorsal Q-12; origin about 



