Fishes of the Family Stromatcidae. 195 



Centrolophus niger^ Gineliu. 

 Cent7-otophiis pompilus, Cuv. & Val. 



To s\nonymy given by Jordan & Evermann, Fishes N. Amer. p. 9G3, 

 add : — 



Schedophilus ehiifjatus, Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 175. 



Depth of body about 4 times in total length, length of head 

 A\ to 5 times. Snout as long as or a little longer than the 

 eye, the diameter of which is 4:-4| times in length of head. 

 Interorbital width about 3^ times in length of head. 

 Maxillary extending to below anterior quarter of eye. Caudal 

 peduncle 1^ to 2 times as long as deep. D. 37-41, with a 

 few indistinct spines anteriorly ; the rays increasing in length 

 to about the twelfth, thence decreasing to the last. 

 A. Ill 20-22. Pectorals about | the length of head, longer 

 than ventrals. Caudal slightly forked. Sc. 185-205 |^y, 

 rather deciduous in the adult, each scale pierced by a pore. 

 Lateral line with a long curve, becoming straight above tiie 

 origin of the anal. Dark brown. 



Total length 480 millim. 



Mediterranean and North Atlantic. 



'^Centrolophus maoricus. 

 Centrolophus maoricus, Ogilby, Rec. Austral. Mus. ii. 1893, p. 64. 



Depth of body 4 times in total length, length of head A\ 

 times. Snout a little longer than the eye, the diameter of 

 which is a little more than 4 times in the length of head and 

 rather less than the interorbital width. Maxillary reaching 

 to below anterior quarter of orbit. D. 38, the rays increasing 

 in length to the twelfth to fourteenth, then becoming abruptly 

 shorter, the posterior part of the fin being emarginate. A 25, 

 exactly half as long as the dorsal. Pectoral less than half 

 the length of head ; ventrals as long as the snout. Scales 

 small, each pierced by a central circular pore. Lateral line 

 decurved, becoming straight below the highest part of the 

 dorsal. Uniform brown, darkest above; the sides of tlie head 

 washed with dull blue, the fins and optircles with gold. 



New Zealand. 



LiRUS. 



Lcirus, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. i. p. 143 (1833). 

 ■\Mwpns, Cocco. 

 \ (Schedophilus, Cocco, Giorn. Innom. Mess. Ar. 3, No. 57, p. 57 (1834). 



Crius, Valenc. in Webb & Berthel. Hist, Nat. 1. Can., Poiss, ii. pt. 2, 

 p. 45 (1830-44). 



