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! ■' ' VIII. 



-SEVENTH EEPORT ON THE FISHES OF THE IPJSH ATLANTIC 

 -■' ' SLOPE. 



THE BIACRUltTD FISHED iCORYPHAENOIDIDAE). 



By G; P, FAEEAN. 



'(Plates VI-VII.) 



[Reud January 28. '■ Piiblislied May 26, 1924.] 



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Contents, ■ 





I'AGE 







PAGE 



1. 



— iNTiionvcioitv, ... 91 



VII. 



— Descriptions and Notes on 





II. 



— Diagram df Vertical Distrihu- 





&y:^civ.&— continued. 







TION 94 





Liomirus aeqnalis, 



113 



III. 



— Tarle of Vertical and Hori- 





L. Giintheri^ 



116 





zontal DiSTRlHUTION, . . .115 





Mnlacocephalus laevis, . 



117 



IV. 



— Tarle OF Speciks taken hy 



I'REVIOUS ExRl'.DITIONS, . ' %96, 97 





Bathygadxts melanobranchtta^ . 

 Trachyrhynchns Irachyrhyn- 



120 



V. 



— FjiEUING, 98 





chiis, . . . . 



122 



VI. 



— Rephoduction, .... 98 





T, Murrayi, 



125 



VII. 



— Descriptions and Notes on 





Lyconus brachycolns, 



127 





Species, . ... .99 



VIII. 



— GR0^vTH Marks on Scales, 



130 





Coryphaeaoides ritpestris, . 99 



IX. 



— List of Captures with Locali- 







C. Mnrriiyi, . . .102 





tius, . . . • . 



139 





Coelorhynchus coelor/iynrhHs, ]0.5 



X. 



— List op Kefeuencks, 



146 





C.-ltihiatiis, .... 109 



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■ I. — Intkoductoky. 



The present paper, the preparation of which was undertaken at the suggestion 

 of the late Mr. E. W. L. Holt, continues the seiies which has been contributed 

 from time to time by Mr. Holt and Mr. L. W. Byrne to the Scientific 

 Investigations of the Fisheries Branch of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction.^ .It deak with the Coryphaenoididae or Macruiids, 

 which, in the S.S. Helga's trawling operations in deep water off the west coast 



' Previous reports were published in Fisheries, Ireland, Soi. Invest. 1905, ii [1906] ; 

 1906, V [1908] ; 1908, iv [1910] ; 1908, v [1910] ; 1910, vi [1911] ; 1912, i [1913]. 



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