Dr. A. Giinther on Deep-sea Fishes. 179 



the Leyden Museum, who has paid some attention to the 

 genus. 



Symmeeista, Hiibner. 



Symmerista amazonica, n. sp. 



Primaries above whitej speckled with rust-red ; some of 

 the scales forming lines as follows : — an oblique irregularly 

 zigzag line limiting the basal area, which is heavily speckled; 

 two dentate sinuate double lines across the disk ; a submargi- 

 nal incomplete series of convergent blackish dashes, and a 

 few blackish scales on the fringe : secondaries pale greyish 

 whity brown with sordid white fringe : body whitish. Under- 

 surface white, the veins and the costal area of primaries 

 brownish. Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



Santarem [Dr. Trail). 



This is another Notodontid, allied to S. politia of Cramer, 

 referred also to the Noctuites by Walker. 



XXII. — Preliminary Notices of Deep- Sea Fishes collected 

 during the Voyage of U.M.8. ^Challenger.'' By Dr. Albert 

 GiJNTHER, F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological Department, 

 British Museum. 



[Contiuued from p. 28.] 

 Setarches fidjiensis. 

 D. 10 I tV- ^' 3/5. P. 23. 

 The height of the body is one third of the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head two fifths. Head 

 scaleless, without prominent spines on the vertex, but with 

 parallel ridges ; interorbital space flat, as wide as the eye, the 

 diameter of which is two ninths of the length of the head and 

 two thirds of that of the snout. Upper jaw overlapping the 

 lower, maxillary extending to below the middle of the eye ; 

 very narrow bands of villiform teeth in the jaws and on the 

 vomer and palatine bones. The largest spines of the head 

 are three at the angle of the prajoperculum ; smaller ones are 

 distributed on the prgeorbital, the lower praeopercular margin, 

 and the operculum. The fourth dorsal spine is the longest, 

 two fifths of the length of the head ; the third anal spine is 

 longer than the second. Pectoral extending to the anal fin. 



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