131 -A 
included; teeth minute; dorsal origin before ventral which nearer 
caudal base than snout tip ichthyoccus. 
2 
a. MAUROLICIUAE. Photophores large and conspicuous; serial photophores on 
body more or less distinctly divided into groups; psoudobranohiae present. 
-■ 1 
, 1. -Dorsal'origin before anal origin. 
1 
m. Serial photophores between ventral and anal continuous with 
those above front part of anal; dorsal origin nearer snout 
tip than caudal base; 16 lower gill rakers 
a rgyripnus . 
2 
m. Serial photophores between ventral and anal separated from 
those above front part of anal fin; dorsal origin nearer 
caudal base than snout tip; 27 lower gill rakers 
maurolicus . 
2 
1. Dorsal origin opposite anal origin; photophores above and 
behind anal arranged in 4 or 5 small groups, each group on 
black background Valenciennellus. 
Genus BONAPARTIA Goode and Bean 
Bonapartia GOODE and BEAU, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, p.102. Type Bonapartia pedal- 
t! 
liota GOODE and BEAU, monotypic. (Versus B 0 napartia BTJTTIKOFER June 1896 
in birds.) 
Zaphotias (GOODE and BEAU) JORDAU and EVERJ.1AUN, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No.47, 
pt.3, 1898, p.2826. Type Bonaparti a pedaliota GOODE and BEAU, orthotypic. 
Body oblong, compressed, tapering to rather long tail. Head moderate. 
Snout short, Eye moderate. Mouth cleft wide. Both /jaws with strong acute 
teeth, regularly set, much smaller teeth in interspaces. Single series of 
