155 



Colours in life: — hyaline grey; paired fins and caudal black, visceral 

 peritoneum black, buccal and branchial cavities partially and slightly pigmented. 



Bay of Bengal, 240 to 276 and 281 to 258 fathoms. 



Mature females are from 9 to 10^ inches long ; the males are from 7g to 8- 



inches long. 



Regd. Nos. 13084 to 13095, 13209, 13210. 



Chlorophthalmus, Bonaparte. 



Chlorophthalmus, Bonaparte, Fann. Ital. Pesci: Giinther, Cat. Fishes, V. p. 403, and Challenger Deep Sea 

 Fishes, p. 192 : Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 60 : Jordan and Evermann, Fishes N. Amer., p. 541. 

 Hyphalonedrus, Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. IV. 1881, p. 483. 



Form of the body elongate, subcyhndrical or compressed, covered with 

 scales. Head rather long, with the lower jaw usually projecting. Mouth-cleft 

 wide, the maxilla dilated bebind. Teeth minute, in narrow bands on the jaws 

 vomer and palatines. Eye large. 



Gill-openings very wide : pseudobranchia? well developed. Branchiostegals 

 10 to 7. 



Dorsal short, situated in the anterior half of the body : anal short, situated 

 in the posterior half of the body. Caudal forked. Adipose fin small. 



Pectorals and ventrals well developed : the ventrals inserted at no great 

 distance behind the pectorals, under or somewhat behind the dorsal. 



Distribution : "West Indies and Atlantic coasts of North America : Mediter- 

 ranean : Bay of Bengal : "Western Pacific. 



125. Chlorophthalmus comiger, Alcock. 



Chlorophthalmus comiger, Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIII. pt. 2, 1894, p. 133, pi. vi. fig. 5 : Illus- 

 trations of the Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XV. fig. 8. 



B. 8. D. 11. A. 9. P. 14. V. 9. L. lat. circ. 55. 



Length of the head about two-fifths of the total without the caudal, greatest 

 height of the body about half the length of the head. 



Eye not quite so long as the snout (including the mandibular element) not 

 quite a third the length of the head, about 3 times the width of the interorbital 

 space. 



The mandibular symphysis forms a strongly projecting, transverse, hori- 

 zontal plate, of which the angles are dentiform. The maxilla reaches to the 

 anterior edge of the pupil. Teeth minute, in narrow bands in the jaws : very 

 inconspicuous on the vomer and palatines. 



Gill-rakers of the first arch numerous, close-set, bristle-like. 



