IOI 
Bathytroctes Giinther. 
(GUNTHER, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 1878, p. 249). 
Rather elongate, compressed, covered by cycloid deciduous 
scales of moderate size. Cleft of mouth wide. A series of small 
teeth on intermawxilla, maxilla, mandible, palatines and vomer. 
Dorsal and anal rather short. Dorsal inserted conspicuously in 
front of anal. Branchiostegals 7. Otherwise as Alepocephalus. 
Synepsis, ofthe species 
A. Cheeks and opercles scaly, snout shorter than eye, 
WiiChMe OES sa tiMess in Oeadts nurcist se of siege cl sel Ia B. squamosus p. 10l. 
#, Head naked. 
a. snout twice longer than eye, 5—6 in head..... B. calcaratus p. 102. 
4, snout shorter than eye, which goes 3'/, timesin head B. macrolepis p. 103. 
I. Bathytroctes squamosus Alc. 
Bathytroctes squamosus Alcock, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 304. — Descript. 
Cat. Indian Deep Sea Fishes, 1899, p. 173. 
Bathytroctes squamosus Max Weber, Siboga-Exp, Fische 1913, p. II. 
Pea ries te. 07s p. LOe VG: I. be cirea tO; Lots 15. 
Head 3°/,—4 and a little more than height. Snout much 
shorter than eye, which is '/, the length of the head and 
almost enters the dorsal profile. Nostrils large, situated im- 
mediately in front of eye. Mouth-cleft wide, approaching the 
transverse; intermaxillary short and slender, the broad maxilla 
reaches just behind level of mid-orbit and includes the man- 
dible in repose, except anteriorly where the latter strongly 
projects. Small, even, acute, uniserial teeth, recurved in the 
intermaxillae, mandibles, palatines and vomer, procurrent or 
procurved in the maxillae. Dorsal begins just behind origin of 
ventrals, which are situated in the vertical through the middle 
of the body, measured without caudal. The anal begins in the 
vertical through the 13th dorsal ray. Caudal symmetrically 
forked. Pectorals long and narrow, their longest rays equal 
to length of head behind anterior nostril, almost touching the 
base of ventrals. Ventrals broad, reaching slightly beyond 
