228 
Largely bright silvery white. Back and upper surfaces usually with 
brownish# Iris Gray white. Bins whitish. 
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans# 
10143 l'.S.i'I.M. Mediterranean. C. L. Bonaparte. Academy Nat# Sci 
Philadelphia, length 32 or 33 mm., without broken caudals# 
40053 • I.N.M. Italy, -lorence Museum, tength 26 to 34 mm. 18 
examples. 
a 
51632 U.S.N.M. Hawaiin Islands. 
A 
ram. i’ype of Ar gyr ope 1 ecus he at hi. 
Albatross Station 4107 
-ength 35 
92244 U.S.N.M. Straits of Messina. -Milan Museum. Length 46 to 50 
mm. 2 examples. 
8 examples. A.H.S.P. Italy. C. L. Bonaparte 455. Dr. T.B. Wilson. 
Length 25 to 46 mm. 
Arg y ropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes 
Argyropelecus acvleat us VALENCIEKN2S, Hist. 1J at. Foiss., vol.22, 1849, p.4-06 
Azores. - GUNTHER, ^at. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol.5, 1364, p.386 (copied). - 
SAUVAGE, Hist. "at. Madagascar, ?oiss., 1891, p.483, pi. 48, fig.5 (Reunion)| 
tl 
. - LUTKEH, Eon. Dansk. J 'idensk. Selslc. Skr. KBbenhaun, ser.S, vol.7, 1892, 
/ o o 
p. 282 (S. 32 E. 44 10 ’, Indian Ocean). - GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic 
Ichth., 1895, p.127 (compiled;. - COLLETT, Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. 
Christiania, 1903, No.9, p.108 (Azores); Zool. Anzeiger, vol.28, 1905, 
p.726 (Azores). - BRACER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Bxped. Val ria, vol.15, Tiefseel 
- Fisdie, 1906, p.110, text fig. 47 (Collett's example). - REGAN, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. London, ser.2, vol.12, Zool., 1908, p.219 (diagnosis in key). 
- " URRAY and HJORT, Depths of the Ocean, 1912, p.S12 (Gibraltar to GRAN 
Canaria, thence to C a pe Bojador, Gran Canaria to Fayal, Azores to Lew- 
