204 
Fins pale to whitish* 
Great Atistralian Bight. 
3441. • 5542. Tagolo Light, S* 65 W., 12. 7 miles (lJ. 8 ° 49 
T 38 tT E. 123 34 * 1 30 n ), northern Mindanao and vicinity. In 219 fath¬ 
oms. August 20, 1919. Length 103 mm. 
Genus MAUROLICUS Cocco 
Kaurolicus ^OCCO, Nuov. Ann. Sci. hat. Bologna, vol.2, 1838, p.192. Type 
* 1 " * ‘ * 
Scopelus amethystlno pun ctatus COCCO, monotypic. 
Triarcus WAITE, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol.42, 1909 (1910), p.387. Type 
Maurolic us australis HECTOR, monotypic • 
Bod;/ cblong. Eye moderate. Mouth cleft wide, oblique, lower law pro¬ 
jecting. ^axillary large, wide, much produced backward, receives slender pre¬ 
maxillary in upper concave part of its edge. Premaxillary and maxillary with 
sharp edge, with uniserial minute teeth* Plan Gib le with few minute teeth. 
Single row of minute teeth on head and vomer. No palatine teeth. Gill opening 
i 
wide. Gill rakers very long, slender, numerous. Fseudobranchiae ell devel- 
oped. Branchiostegals 8 or 9. Body covered with silvery pigment or scales 
present. Photophores large, conspicuous, ventral series more or less broken 
into groups, those between ventral and anal separated from those above front 
part of anal. Dorsal rays 9 to 12, postmedian, before anal. Long low aiipose 
fin, hidden in skin and muscles, origin just behind last dorsal ray. Caudal 
forked. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 
1 
a. Dorsal rays 6; head 4 oculatus . 
“"2 
a. Dorsal rays 10; head 5 to 3 l/5 
mlllleri. 
