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Museum, decrivit la premier e espece de ce genre,* * * § mais il la pla§a, 
h tort, comme il le reconnut plus tard,f dans le genre Sirembo de 
Bleeker. 
C’est le plus grand Poisson abyssal ramene par le Challenger : 
il mesure 075 m. 
2. En 1886, G. B. Goode et M. T. H. Bean, Conservateur 
honoraire au Musee de Washington, fonder ent le genre Neobythites } 
sur un Poisson capture par V Albatross, k 111 fathoms de pro- 
fondeur, dans le Golfe du Mexique. 
Ils nommerent l’espece Neobythites Gillii. 
3. En 1887, M. Gunther, dans sa Monographic des Poissons 
abyssaux du Challenger, % leve une equivoque fdcheuse : 
“This genus has been distinguished by me for some time, but 
the manuscript name which I proposed for it, Tetranematopus, 
was unfortunately introduced by me into the literature without 
diagnosis, so that it has to give way to Neobythites. I failed to 
recognise the latter, as it was characterised by single-rayed ventral 
fins, until Mr. Goode, on inquiry, kindly informed me that the 
genus to which he had given this name has bifid ventral rays, as, 
indeed, he had stated in the description of the species.” 
Le savant Ichthyologiste reconnait, d’autre part, quatre especes 
de Neobythites : 
(1) N. grandis, Gunther, 1877, 
1875 fathoms. Challenger. 
(2) N. Gillii, Goode et Bean, 1886, . 
in „ 
Albatross. 
(3) N. inacrops, Gunther, 1887, 
310 „ 
Challenger. 
(4) N. ocellatus, Gunther, 1887, 
350 „ 
Challenger. 
4. En 1895, parait la description detuillee,\\ avec figure, de 
Y espece-type, recueillie par V Albatross, du genre Neobythites, genre 
dont les auteurs donnent la diagnose suivante : 
* A. Gunther, “ Preliminary Notes on New Fishes collected in Japan during 
the Expedition of H.M.S. Challenger,” Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, 1877, vol. xx., p. 437. 
f A. Gunther, Deep-Sea Fishes, etc., p. 100. 
£ G. B. Goode and T. H. Bean, “ Descriptions of New Fishes obtained by 
the United States Fish Commission mainly from deep water off the Atlantic 
and Gulf Coasts,” Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1885 (1886), vol. viii., p. 600. 
§ A. Gunther, Deep-Sea Fishes, etc., p. 100. 
|| G. B. Goode and T. H. Bean, “Oceanic Ichthyology,” Smithsonian Con- 
tributions to Knowledge, Washington, 1895, vol. xxx., p. 325, 
