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INTRODUCTION 
Tr> continuation of my studies of the Albatross collections 
of fishes this volume is the eighth part. Though a number are valued 
food fishes most of them are bathypelagic, or belong to deep sea faunas, 
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and are rarely if ever brought to market. The localities given are chiefly 
in the Philippine Archipelago, though a few localities in the Netherlands 
Indies, China, Formosa, and Oceania visited by the Albatross are also in¬ 
cluded. Prefatory remarks, given in the preceding volumes, will largely 
apply here also, with special reference to the services rendered by Dr. 
Hugh M. Smith as leader of the expedition. 
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In the Belonidae the following is described as news 
Rhaphiobelone , new genus. 
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Rhaphiobelone philippina, new species. 
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In Hemiramphidae: 
2enarohopterus kneri , new species. 
Zenarchopterus basudensis , new species. 
Melapedalion , new subgenus—-— — —Arrhamphus. 
Dermogenys pectoralis , new species. 
Zenarchopterus atrodorsalis, new species. 
In Exocoetidae: 
Cypselurus albimaculatus , new species. 
Cypselurus caudimaculatus , new species. 
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In Bothidae: 
Pseudorhcanbus megalops , new species. 
Arnoglossus maculipinnis, new species. 
