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Colours in life : — Head and body bright pink, belly and throat white; a 

 broad bright yellow band passes from the tip of the snout through the eye to the 

 caudal fin ; indefinite bright yellow markings on the cheeks, opercles, and fins. 

 In spirit, faded yellow, with four incomplete cross bands of grey. 



Total length 5| inches. 



Two specimens from off the Ganjam coast, 98-102 fathoms. 



Regd. No. 12820, 12821. 



Synageops, Giinther. 



Synagrops, Giinther, Challenger Deep-Sea Fishes, p. 16. 



ilelanostoma, Doderlein, Denk. Akad. Wien, XLVIII. 1884, p. 5 (name pre-occupied). 

 Parascombrops, Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt. 2, 1889, p. 296. 

 Eypoclydonia, Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 236. 



Body rather elongate, covered with large, thin, deciduous, cycloid scales. 

 Muciferous cavities of the vertex of the head well developed. Seven branchios- 

 tegals : pseudobranchias present : edge of preoperculum more or less serrated : 

 operculum with two weak points. Villiform teeth in (usually) narrow bands on 

 the jaws vomer and palatines, with the addition of a pair of large canines in 

 the upper jaw and an irregular row of canines in the lower jaw. Two 

 separate dorsal fins, the first with nine slender spines : anal fin with two spines. 

 An air-bladder. Pyloric caeca in small number. 



This genus may probably prove to be identical with Acropoma Temm. and 

 Schleg. 



11. Synagrops philippinensis, (Giinther). 



Acropoma philippinense, Giinther, Challenger Shore Fishes, p. 51 : Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXII 

 pt. 2, 1894, p. 116. 



Parascombrops pellucida, Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt. 2, 1889, p. 296, pi. xxii. fig. 1. 



? Melanostoma argyreum, Gilbert and Cramer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. Vol. XIX. 1896, p. 416, pi. xxxix. fig. 3. 



Synagrops philippinensis, Illustrations of the Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XXVIII. fig. 1. 



B. 7. D. IX. 1-9. A. II. 7. L. lat. circ. 28. 



Body compressed, its greatest height between 3| and 3^ in the total without 

 the caudal. 



Head, measured from the tip of the underhung lower jaw to the tip of the 

 semimembranous prolongation of the opercle, 2^ in the total without the caudal, 

 compressed, the muciferous cavities of its vertex well developed and bounded by 

 numerous low sharp crests, most of which are oblique : in the skin covering 

 the vertex of the head numerous tiny scales are embedded and almost concealed. 



Snout short, a large part of it is formed by the prominent lower jaw : its 

 length, including the mandibular element, is less than that of the eye. 



