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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



St. 280. 10. viii. 27. 00° 36' 00" S, 8° 28' 00" E. Young-fish trawl, 100-200 (-0) m. : i specimen, 

 158 mm. 



St. 282. 12. viii. 27. i°ii'oo"S, 5° 38' 00" E. Young-fish trawl, 300 (-0) m. : i specimen, 

 55 mm. 



Hob. Atlantic; West Indies; Indian Ocean. 



I have examined the type of Stomias nffifiis (120 mm.), and also the type of S. elong- 

 atiis (105 mm.), lent for examination by the Indian Museum. 



Stomias atlanticus, Pappenheim. 



Pappenheim, 1914, Deutsche Siidpolar-Exped. xv, Zool. vii, p. 169. 



St. 109. 5. xi. 26. 46° 25' 00" S, 15° 13' 00" E. I m. tow-net, horizontal, 192 m.: i specimen, 

 240 mm. 



Depth of body 16 in the length, length of head io|. Snout shorter than eye, diameter 

 of which is 4^ in length of head and about equal to interorbital width. Praemaxillary 

 with 5 teeth, of which the second is enlarged and fang-like; a few minute teeth on the 



Fig. 26. Stomias atlanticus. (x i.) 



maxillary ; mandible with 7 or 8 teeth ; a single pair of vomerine teeth and i or 2 on each 

 palatine. Barbel f length of head, trifid at its extremity. Dorsal 18. Anal 20. Photo- 

 phores — in ventral series I-P 11 ; P-V 46; V-A 12; A-C 15 (?): in lateral series 58. 



Described from a single specimen, 240 mm. in length. 



Hab. South Atlantic, 



Stomias colubrinus, Garman, 1899. 



Brauer, 1906, ' Valdivia' Ttefsee-Fische, p. 47, fig. 10. 



The ' Discoyery ' obtained 34 specimens of this species from the following stations in 

 the North and South Atlantic, at depths ranging from 0-950 m., measuring from 55 to 

 265 mm. in length: St. 170, 269, 270, 276, 281, 282, 296, 297. 



Hab. Atlantic; Pacific coast of Central America. 



