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before pectorals, the fifth above the pectorals, 2 somewhat 

 smaller ones, close together, behind the pectorals and followed 

 at a short distance by the larger 3 equally distant, hinder- 

 most. Between ventrals and anal a series of 5, touching each 

 other. These and the lateral series of organs consist of round 



Fig. 50. Valenciennellns tripunctulatns (Esm.). 



organs, partly silvery, partly blackish, bordered by a metallic 

 reddish patch above. Between origin of anal and caudal 5 equally 

 distant black spots, the first, second and third containing 3 

 white rounded organs, the fourth 2, and the fifth 4; an antorbital 

 organ below nostril, a series of 4 organs underneath the cheek. 

 2 opercular ones, one behind the eye and one behind the maxilla, 

 2 or 3 on the gillmembrane. Brownish, operculum and belly 

 silvery. A series of about 15 17 black spots between oper- 

 culum and caudal. Length 40 mm. 



Habitat: Timor Sea (421 m.)!. - Indie: Madagascar. 

 Atlantic: Danmark straits (65 N. 28 W.). If V. stellatus of 

 Brauer really belongs to this species, also in the northern part 

 of the Indie and in the Atlantic, Gulf of Guinea. 



5. Stylophthalmus Brauer. 



(BRAUER, Zool. Anz. XXV, 1902, p. 298. Deutsche Tiefsee-Exp. 

 Tiefseefische, 1906, p. 66). 



Elongate, scaleless, head depressed, snout long, strongly de- 

 pressed and broadly rounded, mandible prominent, its articular 

 end angularly prominent. Eyes in the very young ones on long 

 immovable cartilaginous stalks, which are reduced later on. 

 Pectorals short, but rather broad. No ventrals. Origin of dorsal 

 before vertical through anus, partly opposite to anal or not. 

 Anus on a papilla, approximate to anal. Caudal forked or 

 rounded. Minute sharp teeth in the jaws. At least a ventral 



