Faruan — Seventh Report on the Fishes of the Irish A tlantic Slope. 99 



. • Coryphaenoid larvae have the general form of the adult, with the addition 

 usually of niucli-elongated ventral fin rays, and a pectoral fin of a transverse" 

 oval shape attached by a constricted peduncle. Speeimefes have been takeii 

 from time to time by the Hclga, but their identification has not as yet been 

 satisfactorily worked out. 



r am much indebted to Mr L. W. Byrne for his kindness in reading 

 through the MS. of this paper and in.iiiaking some useful suggestions 

 which I have been glad to avail myself of. He is, of' course, hot responsible 

 for any of the opinions herein expressed. ^ 



VII. — Desckiptions and Notes on Species. 

 Coryphaenoides rupestris, Gunner. 



Coryphdthoides rupestris, Gunner (1765), Day (1880), Gilbert and Hubbs 

 (1916). 



Macrurus rupestris, Gunther (1887), Holt and Calderwood (1895), Kpehler 

 (1896), Collett (1896), Liitken (1898), Brauer (1906), Holt and Byrne (1910), 

 Murray and Hjrirt (1912). . . 



(Plate VII, fig. 1.) . . 



Fig. 2. — Coryphiieiioidcs rupestris (after Holt and Ciilderwood). 



Description. — Head short, moderately compressed, covered with small 

 scales. Snout short, blunt, obliquely truncated in front. Eye large, circular, 

 or slightly higher than wide. Sub-orbital ridge low and flattened, curving 

 upwards in' front of the eye in the direction of the snout." Cleft of mouth 

 wide, lateral, reaching to behind the centre of the eye. Teeth in villiform 

 bands in both jaws. Barbel very short. luter-orbital space flattened or 

 slightly convex, its width greater than the diameter of the eye, which is 

 contained from 3ito 4 times in the length of the head, being proportionately 

 larger in young specimens than in full-grown ones. 



