THE FISHES OF THE INGOLF EXPEDITIONS 



The young Eemale, previously described and figured by me -- historically then the type of 

 tin ,s ram in length and ioi mm in breadth — from the Davis Strait at the depth of 80 fathoms, 



resembles the younger males just bespoken, especially the youngest, in shape, spinulation and coloring, 

 which it is not necessary to specify nearer, as the actual reproduction here in the text (p. 5) gives 

 the necessary details. It may be observed however that the colored spots are much smaller than in 

 the smallest male at hand. As older females are not at hand, it can not yet be said if those will 

 habitually be more like the adult male, or how great the difference will turn out between the sexes 

 in the sexually mature state. 



Raja ornata Garman which has only been better known to me from fig. 24 of the -Oceanic 

 Ichthyology resembles so much to my R. Fylltz, that it would desire a closer examination to determine 

 it' it is in it the same species, what perhaps is not unlikely. It must be observed however that of 

 the specimens hitherto bespoken of R. ornata the typical specimen is from Florida (Alligator Key) at 

 138 fathoms, the 3 others from 142 fathoms at 32° 24' Lat. North, 78 44' Long. W., thus from a much 

 more southern zone, a circumstance that might weaken the presumption of this identity, for whose 

 confirmation an immediate comparison would be necessary. 



Deep-sea-Eels: Synaphobranchus and Nemichthys [SerrivomerJ. 



Oi the former genus of deep-sea-eels the ■■ Iugolf ■ has brought home 2 specimens, that I have 

 been able to compare with a specimen of Synaphobranchus pinnatus from the Northamerican deep-sea 

 expeditions. 



ruder the name of Synaphobranchus pinnatus is mentioned in the Catalogue of fish collected 

 and described of L Th. Gronov edited by JVE. Gray (1854), a Mursenoid described in the «Museum 

 Ichthyologicums of Gronov, II, p. n, Nr. 161, which typical specimen was however wanting in Gronovs 

 collection and therefore not passed to the British Museum, when the museum purchased the said col- 

 lection. But Johnson & Lowe obtained some specimens at Madeira and the latter described it as 

 Synaphobranchus Kaupii ( Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 169). After Dr. Giinther having in his -Catalogue 

 of Fishes in the British 'Museum (VIII, 1874) renamed it with the specific name of Gray and Gronov, 

 it occurs now in the ichthyologieal literature again as Synaphobranchus pinnatus. The American 

 deep-sea-investigations have demonstrated its occurrence at depths of 304—740 fathoms in the sea off 

 the eastern shores of the United States (f. inst. between the St. George bank and South-Carolina). 

 Goode og Bean in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. X, p. 223 enumerate 84 specimens from 33 — 39 Lat. 

 North and 65 76 Long. West Compare the Oceanic Ichthyology p. 143, fig. 164. A great number 



Stations is enumerated. The expedition of the 'Challenger discovered it in greater or smaller 



numbers of specimens at different stations (off Brasil, south of Japan and south of the Phiiipines etc.) 



iths of 314 1200 fathoms. The French expeditions ( le Travailleur , le Talisman ) have brought 



ether a great number 1501 of specimens from the coast of Marocco and the west coast of North 



