372 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



Bassozetus : — Off PiUiuma to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Gulf to 

 off New York, the middle of the equatorial Atlantic, off North Australia, 

 and off the Philippines, form a series of localities of use in favor of 

 an American strait, but of little avail in relation to that east of the 

 Mediterranean Sea. 



Diplacanthnjwma : — Dredged in the Panamic, off Pernambuco, off the 

 Cape Verdes, in the Arabian Sea, and in the Bay of Bengal. But remotely 

 favoring either of the straits under consideration. 



Bassogigas : — Hei'etofore taken only in the Panamic, the Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia, and off New York. 



Ncolnjthites : — Restricting the genus somewhat narrowly it retains the 

 following localities: Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, off Pernambuco, Arabian 

 Sea, Bay of Bengal to the Philippines and Japan, and Fiji Islands. If, 

 however, its closest allies are united with it as subgenera it ranges into the 

 Panamic. 



Calmfyx : — The three localities from which Catsetyx has been secured, 

 Messier's Straits, the Panamic region, and off California, are all in the 

 eastern Pacific. 



Acanthomis : — Only known from the localities Panamic, north of New 

 Guinea, and off the Philippines. 



Lamprogrammus : — Previous to its discovery in the Panamic this genus was 

 known only from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal ; as now deter- 

 mined it is found in two regions near the equator and about 160' apart. 



Merluccius : — Discovery of this genus in the Panamic region deprives it 

 of a supposititious bipolar distribution ; it had been taken oft' California to 

 Puget Sound, off Chili to Patagonia and to Montevideo, off Florida to Labra- 

 dor, Greeidand, Iceland and the British Isles, off the Cape Verde Isles to 

 the Mediterranean Sea, and off New Zealand. 



Aniiinora : — Though not yet identified from the Straits of Magellan this 

 genus has been taken in the Antarctic. Its distribution bears some resem- 

 blance to that of Merluccius, in that it has ])een reported from the Panamic, 

 from California, Puget Sound, off South Carolina to the Banks of New- 

 foundland, and off Montevideo. 



La'iiioiicma : — A theory of a Caribbean strait is well supported by the 

 distribution of this genus as now determined. Species have been taken in 

 the Panamic, in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico to off Delaware, off 

 the Canaries and the Straits of Gibraltar and off Montevideo. 



