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The pectorals are only about as long as tlie eye. 



The largest specimen is nearly 4- inches long, and is not adult. 



Colours of the young : both sides of the body grey with numerous large dark 

 grey and black blotches disposed in series : caudal with two black blotches : 

 right pectoral with a black blotch. 



Judging from the analogy of B. prsdonga the coloration of the adult would 

 be different. 



Bay of Bengal, off Madras coast, 145-250 fathoms : Andaman Sea, 185 

 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 13732, ^. 



L^ops, Glinther. 



Lceops, Giinther, Challenger Shore Fiahea, p. 29. 

 Scianectes, Aloock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1890, p. 216. 



Body elongate-oval or piriform : head small. Cleft of the mouth very 

 narrow, with the dentition much more developed on the blind side than on the 

 coloured : palatine and vomerine teeth none. Eyes on the left side. The dorsal 

 fin begins in front of the eye. Scales small, thin, deciduous. Lateral line with a 

 curve above the pectoral. 



Gill-openings moderately broad, the membranes united anteriorly and rather 

 broadly. Gill-rakers sufficiently numerous, short, pointed. Six branchiostegals. 



This genus is represented in India by 3 species, only one of which is an 

 inhabitant of the deep-sea. Of the other two, one is hardly distinguishable from 

 Lseops 'parviceps, Giinther. 



104. Lwops maci'ophtlialmiis, Alcock. 



Scianectes macroplithalinus, Alrock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LVIII. pt. 2, 18S9, p. 292, pi. xvi. fig. 4 -. Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1890, p. 216 : Illustrations of the Zoology of the Investigator, Fishes, pl. XXIII. 



FI6, 1. 



B. 6. D. 85-88. A. 68. C. 17. P. s. 14. d. 12. V. G. L. lat. circ. 95. 



Body piriform, very delicate, its greatest height about 2.j in the total with- 

 out caudal. The length of the head is one-third, or rather less, of the same 

 standard. Snout obtuse, about half as long as the eye. Eyes close together, 

 separated by a salient decliving ridge, the lower slightly in advance ; their major 

 diameter rather more than one-fourth the length of the head. Cleft of the 

 mouth nearly vertical ; length of the maxilla a little more than one-fourth that 

 of the head ; the lower jaw projecting in repose. Villiform teeth in a band on 

 the blind side of each jaw. 



