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Proceedings of ihe VLoyaVlrisKAeacterny, 



Coryphaenoides Murray!, Giiuther 



Macrunis Hfitrrayi, Giinther (1887), Murray 'and Hjort"(1912). 

 Coryphaenoides Murrayi, Giinther (1878), Gilbert and Hubbs-(1916). 

 Macrurus mcditerrancus, Holt and Byrne (1910), Hoeck (1914), nee 

 Giglioli. . ■ ' - . 



(Plate VII, fig. 3.) ■ ■ 



Fig. 3. — Coryphnetioidcs Miirrnyi (after Giinther). 



'This species was included in the list of Irish deep-sea fishes published in 

 1910 (Holt, and Ryrne, 1910)_ under the name of Macrwus mcditerraotend, 

 and under that name also figures in the list compiled by the late- Dr. Hoeck 

 and. Dr. Eedeke in ''Publications de Circonstance, No; 12," 2nd-:editionl 

 A re-examination of the specimens, and comparison with those in .the 

 British .Museuni collections, has led me to the conclusion,, in which Mr. Holt 

 concurred, 'that they ought to be referred to the. closely allied species 

 C. Murrayi, which was described by Giinther from five specimens taken by 

 the Challenger off New Zealand, and was found byr the Michael, Sursm the 

 N.E. Atlantic in 1910. ' " ' '• 



C. Murrayi appears to be separated from all the other species of the obso- 

 lete sub-genus Chcdiniira, including C. mediterraneus, by the wide interspa6^ 

 between the first and second dorsal fins. In one respect it closely resembles 

 C. mediterraneus, namely; in the great development of the dorsal region of 

 the body in large specimens. The first specimen taken by the llclga shows 



