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The largest specimen is nearly a foot long. 



Bay of Bengal, 1310 and 1748 fatlioms : Arabian Sea, 1000 fathoms. 

 Regd. Nos. 12832, 12863, 13046. 



As ia iV. squamipijiim, the basal half or more of the dorsal and anal fins is 

 particularly fleshy and scaly. 



64. Neohythltes {Pycuocraspedmn) squamipinnis, Alcock. 



Pycnocraspedum squamipinne, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Nov. 1889, p. 38fi. 



Neobythites squamipimiis, Wcock, 3oaru. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIll. pt. 2, 1894, p. 123 : Illostrations of 

 THE Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XXI. fig. 1. 



Differs from N. macrops in the following particulars :— 



(1) The length of the head is about 3- in the total. 



(2) The greatest body height is about equal to the length of the head 

 behind the eye. 



(3) The length of the snout though about equal to that of the eye, is only 

 between two-thirds and three-fourths that of the interorbital space. 



(4) Major diameter of eye between a fifth and a sixth the length of the 

 head. 



(•5) Anterior nostril not subtubular. 



(6) The teeth in the vomer and palate bones, though disposed in the same 

 way are in narrow bands. 



(7) Opercular spine flat short and weak : (8) two or three rather indis- 

 tinct points at the angle of the preoperculum : (9) only four or five enlarged 

 gill-rakers on the outer side of the 1st branchial arch. (10) Pseudobranchise 

 entirely absent. 



(I'l) The ventral fins though otherwise similar are not half the length of 

 the head. 



(17) Thirteen large long pyloric caeca. 



Colours in spirit ; yellowish or greenish grey, fins darker. 



The largest specimen is llr inches long. 



Bay of Bengal 193 and 145 to 250 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 11700, 11701, 1352-5, 13526. 



The vertical fins are more thickly scaled than usual, in this species, and the 

 caudal, though confluent with the dorsal and anal fins at its base, is free in a 

 considerable part of its extent. 



