ANACANTHINI. 
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in two series, and have an oblique more or less inconspicuous cutting 
edge, as in Myletes. Two conical teeth behind the mandibular series. 
Belly armed with spiniferous (? interhsemal) bones. M. luna, sp. n. 
Id. ibid. Peru. 
Myletes nigripinnis, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 693, Peru. 
HAPLOCHITONIDiE. 
Prototroctes oxyrrhynchus. On the habits of the New Zealand Gray- 
ling ; the writer is inclined to think that it resorts to the sea, although 
direct evidence has not yet been adduced. J. Rutland, Tr. N. Z. Inst. x. 
pp. 250-252. 
STEHNOPTYCHIDiE. 
' Argyropelecus intermedins^ sp. n., Clarke^ Tr. N. Z. Inst. x. p. 244, 
pi. vi.. New Zealand 
Gonostoma elongatum^ New Guinea, gracile, Japan, p. microdon^ 
p. 187, Atlantic and Pacific, spp. nn., Gunther, Ann. N. H. (5) ii. 
ScOPELIDiE. 
Bathysaurus^ g. n. Shape of body similar to that of Saurus, sub- 
cylindrical, elongate, covered with small scales ; head depressed, with 
snout produced, flat above ; cleft of mouth very wide, lower jaw pro- 
jecting ; intermaxillary very long, styliform, tapering, not movable ; 
teeth in jaws in broad bands, not covered by lips, curved, unequal in 
size, and barbed at the end ; a series of similar teeth runs along each 
side of the palate, a few on the tongue, and groups of small ones on 
hyoid ; eye of moderate size, lateral ; pectoral of moderate length ; # 
ventral 8-rayed, immediately behind pectoral ; dorsal in middle of length 
of body, with about 18 rays ; adipose fin absent or present ; anal mode- 
rate ; caudal emarginate ; gill-openings very wide, the gill-membranes 
being separate from each other and from the isthmus ; eleven or twelve 
branchiostegals ; gill-laminse well developed, separate ; gill-rakers tuber- 
cular ; pseudobranchisB well developed. B. ferox, east coast of New 
Zealand, mollis^ S. Pacific, spp. nn., Gunther, Ann. N. H. (5) ii. p: 182. 
Ipnops^ g. n. Body elongate, subcylindrical, covered with large, thin, 
deciduous scales, and without phosphorescent organs ; head depressed, 
with broad, long, spatulate snout, the whole upper surface of which is 
occupied by a most peculiar organ of vision or luminosity, longitudinally 
divided into two symmetrical halves ; bones of head well ossified ; mouth 
wide, with lower jaw projecting ; maxillary dilated behind ; both jaws 
with narrow bands of villiform teeth ; palate toothless ; pectoral and 
ventral fins well developed, and, owing to the shortness of the trunk, 
close together ; dorsal at a short distance behind vent ; adipose nope ; 
anal moderately long ; caudal subtruncated ; pseudobranchiae none.'^ I. 
murrayi^ sp. n., Gunther, 1. c. p. 186, S. Atlantic. 
Harpodon microchir^ sp. n., id. qg. cit. i. p. 487, Japan. 
Chlorophthalmus nigripennis and gracilis, spp. nn., id. op. cit. ii. p. 182, 
New Zealand, Juan Fernandez and S. Atlantic. 
