DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF 
DEEP-SEA FISH FROM LORD HOWE ISLAND. 
By J. Douglas Ogilby, F.L.S. 
The three specimens examined by me, on which I have consti- 
tuted the following new genus, are in the collection of the Hon. 
Wm. ^Macleay, to whom I am greatly indebted for permission to 
describe them. IMr. Masters tells me that they were picked up 
dead on the beach by Mr. Thomas Brown, and given by him to 
my informant, avIio deposited them in their present resting-place. 
Tlie largest is barely two inches in length, and they are in very 
bad condition, so much so that I have found it impossible to give 
the fin formula with certainty. The genus belongs to the 
Sternoptychida\ and is very closely allied to the Atlantic genera 
Argyropelecus and Sternoptyx, from both of which its dentition at 
once distinguishes it. Appended is the description : — 
St E RN 0 PT YC II I D ES, geii . n 0 V . 
Pseudobrancliias present. Head and trunk much elevated and 
compressed, the latter passing gradually into the moderately long 
pedicle. The margin of the upper jaw is formed of the inter- 
maxillary and maxillary, each of which bears a row of long 
recurved teeth at a considerable distance from one another ; 
mandible with a similar row, one of which on either side is much 
more developed. Two series of pho.sphore.scent spots along the 
lower side of the head, body, and tail. 
Sternoptyciiides amabilis, .sp.nov. 
D. .o 11-12. A. 13(1). V. (1). P. 10(?). C. G18,G(?). 
Height of body I of total length. Least height of pedicle 
about j’„ of lieight of body. Length of snout about I of diameter 
of eye. Colors — silvery. 
