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mentions that “ the largest is twelve inches,” but neither 
of the specimens under consideration exceed live inches in 
length 5 one of them, however, being in a very perfect 
condition, I am enabled to draw up a more detailed description 
than I have yet seen, which should prove of interest to 
Australasian ichthyologists. 
Misled by its outward superficial resemblance, and perhaps 
in some degree influenced by the knowledge that it evidently 
resides normally at a considerable depth, Drs. Bleeker and 
Kner placed it among the Berycidce, but as Dr. Gunther very 
rightly observes “ the different character of the fins,” and, I 
may add, the number of the branchiostegal rays, preclude the 
possibility < f its admission into that family, but no more am 
I able to agree with Dr. Gunther as to its Carangoid affinities. 
Appended is a full generic and specific diagnosis. 
Anomalops. 
ITeteropli tJialmus,* Bleek. , F aun . Ichth. Ins. Manado,p.42 (1856). 
Anomalops , Kner, Sitz. Alt. Wien, lviii. p. 294 (1868). 
Branchiostegals seven : pseudobranchiae well developed. Body 
oblong, more or less compressed. Cleft of mouth of moderate 
depth. Eyes lateral, very large: an oblong, elongate, glandular, 
free, luminous organ occupies a dejiresion in the infraorbital 
ring. Yilliform teeth on the jaws and palatine bones : vomer 
toothless. Two dorsal fins ; the first short with weak spines, 
the second and the anal of moderate length: anal with two 
short spines. Scales small and rough. 
Anomalops palpebratus.| 
Spams pal pebratus, Bodd., in Pallas N. Xord. Beitr. ii. p. 55, 
tab. iv. ff. 1 , 2 . 
Bodianus palpebratns , Lacep., iv. p. 286. 
lleterophthalmus katoptron, Bleek., Faun. Ichth. Ins. Manado, 
1 c. ; Faun. Ichth. Ins. Amboina, p. 9 ; Atl. Ichth. tab. 
ceclv. fig. 1 , 
Anomalops grcrffii, Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wien, 1. c. , tab. i. fig. 1. 
Anomalops pal pebratus, Giinth., Fisch. d. Siidsee, p. 142, taf. xci. 
fig. A ; Yoy. Challenger, Deep-sea Fishes, xxii. p. 41. 
B. vii. D. 5 . 1/13-15 (16)4 A. 2/11-13. Y. 1/5. P.18. C. 20. 
Length of head four, height of body below intradorsal space 
three and four-fifths in the total length ; breadth of head 
* Having been used by Blanchard for a genus of Coleopterous Insects 
five years previously, the name is inadmissable. 
f I am indebted to Dr. Gunther for kindly correcting by letter my 
mistake of name, even though I had previously discovered the original 
name. (See P.L.S.N.S.W. iv. (2) p. 312.) 
J Gunther, op. cit. 
