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5. [[underlined]] Typhlopsaras shufeldtii [[/underlined]] Gill, Forest

 and Stream       1883, is not blind and it is not a new genus and species but is identical with [[underlined]] Mancalias uranoscopus [[/underlined]] (Murray), "The Atlantic", New York 1878, II, p. 67, fig. 20.

Other species which are especially interesting are the following:

33296, 33495, 33560 - [[underlined]] Argyropelecus olfersii [[/underlined]] (Cuv.). We had previously obtained [[/underlined]] A. hemigymnus [[/underlined]], so that we now possess two species of the genus from the western Atlantic. These are the first specimens of [[underlined]] olfersii [[/underlined]] that we have secured.

33471, 33563 - [[underlined]] Sternoptyx diaphana [[/underlined]] Hermann.

not taken before except by the "Blake".

33510 - [[underlined]] Bathylagus [[/underlined]] species.

A specimen, No 31861, of the same species was taken by the "Fish Hawk", Oct. 1882, haul 1155, in N. lat. 39° 52', W. long. 70° 30', 554 fathoms. The genus was described by Dr. Günther (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept., 1878, p. 248) from examples obtained in the Antarctic and south Atlantic at depths raging from 1950 to 2040 fathoms. Our species resembles his [[underlined]] B. atlanticus [[/underlined]] very closely, but has a longer anal.