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On top of the snout are the two isolated dorsal spines, the anterior of which 

 bears a long stout tentacle (about a third as long as the body) ending in a fleshy 

 knob, while the second is almost a rudiment. 



Eye small, subcutaneous, about a third as long as the snout : in front of it 

 is a tubular nostril. 



Mouth-cleft enormous, the length of the maxilla being nearly one-third of 

 the total, caudal included. A series of large and small depressible teeth in each 

 jaw : a few large teeth, decreasing in size from without inwards, on each side 

 of the vomer. 



Skin of head and body covered with minute prickles. 



Dorsal and anal fins placed close to the caudal, which is very large and is 

 pointed. 



Colour black. 



A single specimen, 5^ inches long, from off the Malabar coast, 0o6 fathoms. 



Regd. No. 14008. 



Distribution : Banda Sea, Arabian Sea. 



Onirodes, Liitken. 



Oneiyodes, Liitken, Oversigt Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. 1871, p. 56 : Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1. 1878, 

 p. 227 : Giinther, Challenger Deep Sea Fishes, p. 5(3: Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mug. XVI. p. 848: 

 Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 492 : Jordan and Everinanu, Fishes of N. America III. p. 2732. 



Paroneirodes, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Sept. 1890, p. 206. 



Head enormous, body and tail short, both compressed and elevated. Skin 

 naked. Mouth large, oblique, the lower jaw a little prominent. Depressible 

 teeth of unequal size in the jaws and on the vomer. Eyes small. 



Gills two and a half. No pseudobranchiEe. 



Spinous dorsal reduced to two spines, which are modified into tentacles. 

 Soft dorsal and anal short. 



Ventrals absent. No pyloric casca. 



Distribution : off coasts of Greenland : Bay of Bengal in deep water. 



36. Onirodes gloinerosns, Alcock. 



Paronirodes i;Zomei-os!(s, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Sept. 1890, p 206, pi. ix. fig (> : It.lustbatio.vs of thk 

 Zoology of thk Investigator, pl. XXVIII. fig. 4. 



D. I.I. G. A. 4. C. 8. 



When captured the form of the body was ovoid, though unstable ; hardened 



in spirit it becomes compressed and oval. The length of the head is five 



eighths, its greatest height nine-sixteenths of the total, without the caudal. The 



eye is small, being deeply buried beneath a circular patch of trans])arent (unpig- 



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