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naked, cheeks and postorbital region covered with scales. Opercle 

 naked. 



Lateral line well developed, continuous. 



Color, when fresh : Above, deep bluish-black, bluish on the 

 sides ; below, silvery white. Ventrals black. 



MEASUREMENTS OF Gasterochisma melampus Richardson. 



Length overall (in millimeters) 



Length to base oj caudal fin (in millimeters) 



Length of head in hundredths of length to base of caudal 



Length of caudal fin 



Height of body at insertion of ventral fin 



Height at beginning of insertion of anal fin 



Least height of caudal peduncle ... 



Greatest width of body 



Length of snout 



Length of postorbital portion of head 



From point of snout to insertion of ventral fin 



From point of snout to insertion of pectoral fin 



From point of snout to beginning of spinous dorsal fin 



From point of snout to beginning of second dorsal fin 



From point of snout to beginning of anal fiu ... 



Longest spine in first dorsal fin ... 



Longest ray in second dorsal fin ... 



Longest ray in anal fin 



Length of pectoral fin 



Length of ventral fin 



372 

 305 

 23-9 

 22-0 

 22-3 

 22-3 



3-6 

 10-8 



8-2 

 10-8 

 23-3 

 24-3 

 25-9 

 587 

 63-6 

 1T5 



79 



6-2 

 13-1 

 35-4 



405 

 325 

 24-9 

 24-6 

 24-0 

 23-0 



37 

 10-8 



8'6 

 ll'l 

 23-0 

 25-2 

 27-4 

 60-6 

 64-0 

 11-1 



8-6 



6'5 

 14-2 

 35-1 



Until more attention has been devoted to this species it will 

 be impossible to make an authoritative statement ; but it may be 

 here mentioned that Regan* considers that Gasterochisma is the 

 young of that large scombroid, Lepidothynnus and he draws 

 attention to the fact that "the smaller size of the ventrals in the 

 larger fish is paralleled in the genera Nomeus, Psenes, Lirtis, &c." 



FAMILY BRAMID^E (Pomfrets). 

 Bramichthys woodward! Waite. 



A single example of this recently described speciesf was 

 captured by me during 1901, and has been in my possession since. 



* Regan : A.M.N.H., 7, x, p. 120. 



t Waite : Rec. Aust. Mus., vi, 2 (1905), p. 72, pi. xiv. 



