120 



the beginning of the last third of the length. Short adipose 

 fin slightly behind the vertical through end of anal. Pectorals 

 far below middle of height, below posterior part of operculum, 

 not reaching the ventrals, which originate before the middle 

 of the body and before the dorsal and do not reach the anal. 



Fig. 44. Vinciguerria lucetia (Garm.) (After Zugmayer). 



Caudal long, deeply forked. Anus slightly before anal. In the 

 jaws a series of small unequal teeth, slightly increasing in size 

 before backward. 4 5 in a series on the palatines, scales thin, 

 cycloid. Luminous organs: 2 suborbital organs, an anterior 

 entirely black one, below the interspace between nostril and 

 eye, the other below the backportion of the orbit. 3 oper- 

 culars, 2 above each other at the praeopercular margin : a 

 posterior behind the lower anterior, one on each side behind 

 the symphysis, 8 9 between branchiostegal rays. A ventral 

 series of 21 23 between isthmus and ventrals, of 8 10 be- 

 tween ventrals and anal and of 12 13 between origin of 

 anal and caudal of which the 6 or 7 posterior are situated 

 behind the anal. In the lateral series II 13 between operculum 

 and the vertical through the ventrals, from here to the vertical 

 through origin of anal 5 9. Blackish above, sides of head and 

 body silvery. A black spot at the end of the tail and some 

 short black transverse stripes on back. Length 50 mm. 



Habitat: Molucco Passage (1500 M.)!. Indie to New 

 Amsterdam. Pacific, West coast of Mexico and Central America. 

 Atlantic : Gulf of Guinea.. 



8. Gonostoma Rafinesque 



(Rafinesque, Ind. Ittiol. Sicil. 1810, p. 64). 



Elongate, compressed. Scales none or large but excessively 

 thin, more or less concealed by the skin and only slightly 

 evident. Eye about equal to snout. A complete ventral and 



