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The teeth are in two bands in each jaw, the outer band being enlarged : the 

 vomerine teeth also are enlarged. 



The dorsal fin begins over the gill-opening. The pectorals are as long as 

 the snout. 



The colour is grey : the vertical fins in their posterior third or fourth have 

 a very narrow black edge. 



Length of adult females from 10 to 12 inches. 



Bay of Bengal, 128 and 195 to 210 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 13453-13456, 13649-13692. 



160. Congromurcena fiiusteliceps, Alcock. 



Congromttnena musteliceps, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIII., pt. 2, 1894, p. 133, pi. vii., fig. 5 : 



iLLnSTRATIONS OF THE ZoOtOGY OP THE INVESTIGATOR, FiSHES, PL. XV. FIG. 7. 



Bathycongrus musteliceps, Ogilby, loc, cit. supra. 



Differs from C. squaliceps only in the following particulars : — 

 The snout is sharp-pointed ; its length is a quarter that of the head and fully 

 twice that of the eye. 



The mouth-cleft reaches to the posterior border of the pupil. 



The vomerine teeth are in a broad band of some length. 



The dorsal fin begins above the gill-opening. 



Colours dark brown, pectorals and vertical fins nearly black. 



Length 15 inches. 



Bay of Bengal, 145 to 250 fathoms. 



Regd. Nos. 13698-13702. 



161. Congromurcena guttulata, Gthr. 



Congromureena guttulata, Giinther, Challenger Deep-Sea Fishes, p. 252. 

 Congrellus guttulatus, Ogilby, loc. cit. nupra. 



This species, if my identification be correct, differs from C. squalioeps, only 

 in the following particulars : — 



The head measured to the gill-opening is more than three eye-lengths shorter 

 than the distance between the gUl-opening and the vent, which is not quite a 

 third the length of the tail. 



The snout, which is blunt-pointed, is a fourth the length of the head. 



The diameter of the eye is between half and two-thirds the length of the 

 snout. 



The mouth-cleft reaches to the posterior border of the pupil. 



The dorsal fin begins behind the root of the pectoral fin. 



