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Rose-coloured in life with indistinct dusky patches on the back and one on 

 the first dorsal fin : these fade away in spirit. 



Two specimens, the largest just over 3 inches long, from the Andaman 

 Sea, 188-220 fathoms. They have been compared with one of the Challenger 

 duplicates. 



Regd. Nos. 13031, 13032. 



Distribution : Andaman Sea : East Indian Archipelago. 



Setaeches, Johnson. 



Setarches, Johnson, Proo. Zool. Soo. 1862, p. 177 : Gunther, Challenger Deep-Sea Fishes, p. 19 : Goode and 

 Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 262 : Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle America, II. p. 1860. 

 Bathysehastes, Steindachner and DSderlein, Denk. Ak. Wien, XLIX. 1885, p. 207. 

 ? Lioscorpius, Gunther, Challenger Shore Fishes, p. 40, and Challenger Deep-Sea Fishes, p. 20. 



Head and body compressed : the vertex of the head with the muciferous 

 cavities well developed but with few ridges, and those low and indistinct, and 

 with no erect spines : occiput naked, without a groove. Preorbital and preoper- 

 culum armed with spines, operculum with two spines. Seven branchiostegals. 

 Pseudobranchias present. Bands of villiform teeth on the jaws vomer and 

 palatines. 



Body covered with very small cycloid scales. Lateral line very wide, naked. 

 Vertical fins not elongate. Dorsal fins separate but in contact, the first usually 

 with eleven spines. Pectorals long and large, without separate appendages. 



Pyloric appendages few. 



14. Setarches Gunthei'i, Johnson. 



Setarches Giintheri, Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1862. p. 177, pi. xxiii : Vaillant, Exp. Sci. Travailleur et Talisman 

 Poissons, p. 373 : Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 263. 



Lioscorpius longiceps, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July 1891, p. 23 : Illustbations op the Zoology of the 

 Investigator, Fishes, PL. X. pig. 3. [It seems to me that Lioscorpius longiceps Gunther, Challenger Shore Fishes, 

 p. 40, pi. xvii. fig. C is little different from this species, for though the short description does not correspond the 

 figure does.] 



Scorpxna remigera, Gilbert and Cramer, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mas. Vol. XIX. 1896, p. 418, pi. xl. 



B. 7. D. IX. 1-10. A. III-5. 



Height of the body from - to ^, length of the head about - the total length 

 without the caudal. 



m 



Head singularly large and clumsy looking, with cavernous bones and well- 

 developed muciferous cavities, scaly on temples cheeks and opercles, naked 



elsewhere. 



Three free divergent spines on edge of preorbital ; four or five, of which the 

 three upper are usually large, on the edge of the preoperculum ; two on the 



