48 



Numerous specimens from the Bay of Bengal 100 to 40 fathoms, and off 

 the Malabar coast 124 to 28 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 11663, 11831, 11832, 11835, 11923, 11924, 12438,12506, 



12948, 13935-13939, 14334-14350, —^ ~> 4 -f • 



Distribution : East Indian Archipelago, Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea. 



In the Indian Museum is also one of the Challenger Duplicates from the 

 East Indian Archipelago. 



Bembrops, Steindachner. 



Bembrops, Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien, LXXIV. 1877, i. p. 211 ; Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIII. 

 1894, pt. 2, p. 118, and Vol. LXV. 1896, pt. 2, p. 316. 



Hypsicometes, Goode, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. III. 1880, p. 347 ; Giinther, ' Challenger ' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 85; 

 Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. XVI. p. 808 ; Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 290 : Jordan & 

 Evermann, Fishes of N. America, III., p. 2293. 



Bathypercis, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXII. 1893, pt. 2, p. 177. 



Body elongate, subcylindrical : head large, depressed. Snout broad spathu- 

 late : cleft of the mouth wide, oblique, with the lower jaw projecting : villiform 

 teeth in the jaws vomer and palatines. Eyes large, close together, almost super- 

 ior. 



Gill-opening very wide, the membranes free. Seven branchiostegals. 

 Opercle with 3 spines : angle of preoperculum feebly armed. Pseudobranchias 

 large. 



Scales large, cycloid or very finely ctenoid, rather deciduous. Lateral fine 

 continuous from occiput to caudal, the scales of its anterior portion keeled or 

 feebly spinate. A small supra-clavicular spine. 



Two separate dorsal fins, the first short, the second long. Anal similar to 

 the 2nd dorsal. Ventrals jugular. 



Pyloric appendages few. No air-bladder. 



29. Bembrops caudimacilla, Steindachner. 



Bembrops caudimacula, Steindachner, Sitzungsb. Ak. Wien, LXXIV. 1877, i. p. 212 : Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, Vol. LXIII. pt. 2, 1894, p. 118. 



Hypsicometes gobioides, Goode, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. III. 1880, p. 347, and Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 290, fig. 

 263 : Giinther, Challenger Deep-Sea Fishes, p. 85 ; Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of N. America III. p. 2294. 



Bathypercis platyrhynchus, Alcock, J. A. S. B. Vol. LXII. pt. 2, 1893, p. 177, pi. ix. fig. 1. 



Bembrops platyrhynchus, Alcock, J. A. S. B. Vol. LXIII. pt. 2, 1894, p. 118 : Illustrations of the Zoology 

 of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XX. fig. 6. 



B. 7. D. VI. 14. A. 16-17. P. circ. 25. V. I. 5. L. lat., from 

 origin on occiput, 50. 



Head large, broad, depressed, its extreme length, measured from the tip of 

 the projecting mandible to the apex of the prolonged opercular flap is from two- 

 fifths of to 2^ in the total, caudal excluded. Body elongate, cylindrical, low, 



