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 106. Aphoristia Gilesii, Alcock. 



Aphoristia Oilesii, Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt. 2, 1889, p. 293, pi. xvii. fig. 2 : Illustra- 

 tions of the Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XIV. fig. 4. 



D. 97-98. A. 83-85. C. 14. V. 4. Scales about 90 transverse rows 

 behind head : about 38 longitudinal series behind gill-opening. 



1 2 



Length of the head a fifth, greatest body height 3- to 3^ in the total length 

 without the caudal. 



Snout between a fifth and a sixth the length of the head : the posterior 

 nostril is a pore immediately in front of the inter-orbital space, the anterior is 

 a slender tube situated above the lip midway between the eye and the tip of the 

 snout. No nostrils on the blind side. 



Eyes well within the anterior third of the head ; their major diameter is 

 about two-thirds the length of the snout and hardly an eighth the length of the 

 head : they lie not very far apart, between the same verticals. 



Mouth-cleft nearly horizontal, about two-ninths the length of the head, 

 reaching to or slightly beyond the middle of the eye. 



Body and every part of the head except the edges of the mouth, covered 

 with scales, which are sharply ctenoid on the coloured side and less strongly 

 ctenoid on the blind side. 



The longest rays of the dorsal fin are a little more than a third the greatest 

 body-height in length. 



The anal fin begins about an eye-length behind the base of the ventral, 

 which arises between the after border of the gill-covers. 



Colours : left side dark brown with numerous close fine parallel longitudinal 

 lines : right side grey with irregular dark brown patches. 



The largest specimen is over 5- inches long. 



Bay of Bengal, 193 and 210 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 11684, 13630. 



Named after Major G. M. J. Giles, I. M. S., who was Surgeon-Naturalist to 

 the Marine Survey from 1884 to 1888. 



107. Aphoristia Wood-Masoni, Alcock. 



Aphoristia Wood-Masoni, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt. 2, 1889, p. 294 : Illustrations of 

 the Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XVI. fig. 4. 



D. 90-98. A. 78-84. C. 14. V. 4. Scales about 90 transverse rows 

 behind head : about 34 longitudinal series behind gill-opening. 



Except in the following particulars this species agrees with A. Gilesii : — 

 The length of the snout is between a fourth and a fifth that of the head. 



