8 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor svar, 
three as described by Alcock, on the superior margin of the orbit. 
In all four specimens in the Indian Museum three spines are pres- 
ent in this situation, but the most anterior is smaller than the 
others and may conceivably be occasionally absent altogether. 
Chaunax pictus, Lowe. 
1899. Alcock, p. 58. 
Three specimens, ranging from 59 to 137 mm. in length, were 
obtained at Station 391. In the smallest example the body was 
covered on the upper surface with large and indistinct dark spots ; 
the mouth was almost completely occupied by a free tongue and 
the ventral fins arose at the bottom of two small pits on the 
ventral surface. 
Halicmetus ruber, Alcock. 
1899. Alcock, p. 66. 
Til. Zool. Invest., Fishes, pl. xix, fig. 5. 
Six specimens, ranging in length from 35:3 to 693 mm., 
were obtained at Station 391. 
An examination of these and other specimens— thirteen in all 
—in the Indian Museum reveals the fact that there is a very con- 
siderable degree of variation in the species in the relative propor- 
tions of the disc. In the following table I have given the results 
obtained by measuring the greatest breadth of the disc between the 
prominent lateral spines and comparing this with the total length 
(without the caudal fin) :— 
No. of specimen I 2 Bhai 5 6 7 8) 9.2170 MEE Ble 2 late 
Total length .. 45°7/44°5)44°5 29 | 40 | 75 4075) 58 | 55°5)42°3) 55°5| 59 | 35°5 
Maximum 37°6| 34°5| 33 | 21 | 28 | 52,27 | 38 |3475|25 |32 | 34 | 17 
breadth of disc. | | 
Ratio Fs | POIs Ce 1°35, 1°38) 1-42 1°44 1°5| I'5| 1-6] 1°69] 1°73) 1°74] 2°09 
| J | | 
Lloyd (1909, p. 171) has shown that a similar variation is 
present in the closely-allied genus Malthopsis. 
Family GOBIIDAE. 
Callionymus carebares, Alcock. 
1899. Alcock, p. 73. 
Ill. Zool. Invest., Fishes, pl. xx, fig. 4. 
Two small specimens, obtained at Stations 388 and 389 respec- 
tively, are referred to this species. 
