1 3 6 



Habitat: Banda Sea (2798 m.)! -- Indie: tropical part to 

 New Amsterdam. Atlantic from North Cape to Cape of Good 

 Hope, from North America to Brasil. 



4. Valenciennellus Jordan & Evermann. 

 (JORDAN & EVERMANN, Fishes of North & Middle America I. 1896, p. 577). 



Elongate, strongly compressed, scaleless. Luminous organs 

 on head; a ventral series between isthmus and ventrals and 

 between ventrals and anal, the organs touching each other. A 

 more lateral series of distant organs beginning at isthmus and 

 ending at some distance before ventrals. Between origin of anal 

 and caudal 5 groups of organs on rather large black patches. 

 Head strongly compressed. Gape of mouth wide, very oblique, 

 bordered superiorly by the broad, curved maxillary, which 

 receives anteriorly the slender intermaxilla. Mandibles promi- 

 nent, enclosed, very broad posteriorly with a prominent posterior 

 inferior angle, which is the most prominent part of the ventral 

 profile of the head. Jaws with a series of minute teeth, curved 

 backward. Origin of short dorsal above the anterior rays of 

 the long anal, which reaches behind the vertical through the 

 adipose fin. Pectorals below the middle of the height, their 

 base below the weak operculum. Ventrals short, before middle 

 of body. Caudal emarginate. Gillmembranes free from isthmus. 



i. Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esm.). 



Matirolicus tripunctulatus Esmark, Vidensk. Selskaps Forhandl. Christiania, 1870, 



p. 488. 



Maur aliens tripunctulatus LUtke, Spolia Atlantica, Scopelini, 1892, p. 269. 

 Valenciennellus tripunctulatus Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North & Middle 



America I. 1896, p. 578. 



? Valenciennellus stellatus Brauer, Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. Tiefseefische, 1906, p. 100. 

 Valenciennellus triptmctulatus Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische, 1913, p. 20. 



D.; ; A. 24; P. 10; V.;. 



Height 3 3 / 4 , head 3V 3 3 3 / 4 , eye 2 ! / 2 , about equal to snout. 

 Gape of mouth very oblique, not very far from vertical. Origin 

 of dorsal opposite to first rays of anal, in the middle of the 

 length. Pectorals about 2 / 3 of the length of the head, reaching 

 to ventrals, which are short. Scales wanting. Both jaws with 

 minute teeth. No teeth on vomer and palatines (?). Luminous 

 organs: 16 17 organs, touching each other, in a ventral series 

 between isthmus and ventrals. A lateral series of 10, four of which 



