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 109. Aphoristia trifasclata, Alcock. 



Aphoristia trifasciata, Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIII. pt. 2, 189-4, p. 132, pi. vii. fig. 4. Illus- 



TRATIONS OF THE ZOOLOGY OF THE INVESTIGATOR, FlSHES, PL. XV. FIG. 5. 



D. 87-89. A. 75-77. C. 12. V. 4. Scales 80-82 transverse rows be- 

 hind the head : 38-40 longitudinal series behind the gill-opening. 



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



The length of the head is a fourth of the total, without the caudal, as also 

 is the greatest height of the body. The eyes are in contact. 



The mouth-cleft is about a fourth the length of the head and reaches con- 

 siderably behind the middle of the eye. 



The longest dorsal rays are about two-fifths the greatest body-height. 



The anal fin begins a snout-length behind the base of the ventral. 



Colours : left side warm brown with 3 broad blackish cross-bands : right 

 side colourless. 



The largest specimen is 4- inches long. 



Bay of Bengal, off Madras coast, 145 to 250 and 195 to 210 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 13595-13606, 13608-13612. 



This species and the last are both akin to Symphurus leei Jordan and 

 Bollman, Symphwrus fasciolaris Gilbert, and Symphurus atramentatus Gilbert. 



Ctnoglossus, Ham. Buch., Gthr. 



110. Cynoglossiis Carpenteri, Alcock. 



Cynoglossus' Carpenteri, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt 2, 18S9, p. 287, pi. xviii. fig. 1 : Illus- 

 trations of the Zoology of the Investigator, FisnES, PL. XXII. fig. 5. 



D. circ. 105. A. circ. 85. C. 12. V. 4. Scales about 95 rows from top 

 of gill-opening to caudal. 



Body lanceolate : tail tapering. The height of the body is about the same 

 as the length of the head, or from 3^ to 3g in the total without the caudal. 



The snout is obtusely triangular and about a third the length of the head : 

 the rostral hook ends in the vertical through the anterior border of the eye. 

 Two nostrils : the posterior, which is a pore lying behind a papilla, is situated in 

 front of the interorbital space ; the anterior, which is tubular, is situated a little 

 in advance of the lower eye. 



Eyes prominent, about half a diameter apart : the lower one, which is 

 slightly the larger and slightly posterior, is about one-eleventh the length of the 

 head in its major diameter. 



Mouth large ; its angle is nearly an eye-length behind the posterior border 

 of the lower orbit, and about equidistant between the tip of the snout and the 

 edge of the gill-cover. Minute teeth in the posterior two-thirds of the jaws on 

 the blind side only. Lips not fringed. 



