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Colours in life : — Head and body bright pink, belly and throat white ; a 

 liroad bright yellow band j^asses from the tip of the snout through the eye to the 

 caudal fin ; indefinite bright yellow markings on the cheeks, opercles, and fins. 

 In spirit, faded yellow, with four incomplete cross bands of grey. 



Total length 5|- inches. 



Two specimens from off the Ganjam coast, 98-102 fathoms. 



Regd. No. 12820, 12821. 



Synagrops, Giinther. 



Synagrops, Giinther, Cballenger Deep-Sea Fishes, p. 16. 



Melanostoma, DSderlein, Denk. Akad. Wien, XLVIII. 1884, p. 5 {name pre-occupied). 

 Parascombrops, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIH. pt. 2, 1889, p. 296. 

 Hypoclydonia, Goode & Bean, Oceauic Ichthyology, p. 236. 



Body rather elongate, covered with large, thin, deciduous, cycloid scales, 

 Muciferous cavities of the vertex of the bead well developed. Seven branchios- 

 tegals : pseudobranchia3 pi'esent : edge of preoperculum more or less aen*ated : 

 operculum with two weak points. Villiform teeth in (usually) uan-ow bands on 

 the jaws vomer and palatines, with the addition of a pair of larg-e canines in 

 the upper jaw and an irregular row of canines in the lower jaw. Two 

 separate dorsal fins, the first with nine slender spines : anal fin with two spines. 

 An air-bladder. Pyloric caeca in small number. 



This genus may probably prove to be identical with Acivpoma Temm. and 

 Schleg. 



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11. Synagrops philippinensis, (Gunther). 



Acropoma philippinense, Giinther, Challenger Shore Fishes, p. 51 : Alcock, Joam. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXII. 

 pt. 2, 189-t, p. 116. 



Paraticomhrops pdlucida, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt. 2, 1889, p. 296, pi. xxii. fig. 1. 



? Melanostoma anjyreum, Gilbeit and Cramer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. Vol. XIX. 1896, p. 416, pi. xsxix. fig. 3. 



Synagrops philippinensis, Illvt-stkations of the Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, vh. XXVIII. fig. 1. 



B. 7. D. IX. 1-9. A. II. 7. L. lat. circ. 28. 



Body compressed, its greatest height between 3 J and 3^ in the total without 

 the caudal. 



Head, measured from the tip of the underhung lower jaw to the tip of the 

 semimembranous prolongation of the opercle, 2^ in the total without the caudal, 

 compressed, the muciferous cavities of its vertex well develojjed and bounded by 

 numerous low sharp crests, most of which are oblique : in the skin covering 

 the vertex of the head numerous tiny scales are embedded and almost concealed. 



Snout short, a large part of it is formed by the prominent lower jaw : its 

 length, including the mandibular element, is less than that of the eye. 



