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The pectorals are only about as long as the eye. 



The largest specimen is nearly 4- inches long, and is not adult. 



Colours of the young : both sides of the body grey with numerous large dark 

 grey and black blotches disposed in series : caudal with two black blotches : 

 right pectoral with a black blotch. 



Judging from the analogy of B. prselonga the coloration of the adult would 

 be different. 



Bay of Bengal, off Madras coast, 145-250 fathoms : Andaman Sea, 185 

 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 13732, 555. 



L^ops, Giinther. 



L&ops, Giinther, Challenger Shore Fishes, p. 29. 

 Scianectes, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1890, p. 216. 



Body elongate-oval or piriform : head small. Cleft of the mouth very 

 narrow, with the dentition much more developed on the blind side than on the 

 coloured : palatine and vomerine teeth none. Eyes on the left side. The dorsal 

 fin begins in front of the eye. Scales small, thin, deciduous. Lateral line with a 

 curve above the pectoral. 



Gill-openings moderately broad, the membranes united anteriorly and rather 

 broadly. Gill-rakers sufficiently numerous, short, pointed. Six branchiostegals. 



This genus is represented in India by 3 species, only one of which is an 

 inhabitant of the deep-sea. Of the other two, one is hardly distinguishable from 

 L&ops pa/rviceps, Giinther. 



104. Lceops macrophthalmus, Alcock. 



Scianectes macrophthalmus, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt. 2, 1889, p. 292, pi. xvi. fig. 4 : Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1890, p. 216 : Illustrations of the Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XXIII. 



FIG, 1. 



B. 6. D. 85-88. A. 68. C. 17. P. s. 14. d. 12. V. 6. L. lat. circ, 95. 



Body piriform, very delicate, its greatest height about 2 l - in the total with- 

 out caudal. The length of the head is one-third, or rather less, of the same 

 standard. Snout obtuse, about half as long as the eye. Eyes close together, 

 separated by a salient decliving ridge, the lower slightly in advance ; their major 

 diameter rather more than one-fourth the length of the head. Cleft of the 

 mouth nearly vertical ; length of the maxilla a little more than one-fourth that 

 of the head ; the lower jaw projecting in repose. Villiform teeth in a band on 

 the blind side of each jaw. 



