of the Bay of Bengal &c. 385 



is compressed, elongate, and tapering, with a maximum height 

 nearly equal to the length of the head. Snout as long as the 

 eye, or 4| in the head-length, rounded, scaly. Interorhital 

 space wider than the eye, and, like the crown of the head, 

 flattened. Operculum with one spine above. Preoperculum 

 excised at its angle. Nostrils of moderate size, the anterior 

 near the end of the snout. ]\Iouth wide, the maxilla reaching 

 behind the posterior border of the orbit. No barbel. Villi- 

 form teeth in bands in the jaws, palatines, and vomer. 

 Tongue small. Gill-cleft wide; four gills, with narrow 

 laminaj. Pseudobranchiee thick and fleshy. Gill-rakers 

 numerous and almost as long as the eye on the first arch ; 

 elsewhere almost tuberculate. Scales small, smooth, decidu- 

 ous. Lateral line running about nine rows of scales below 

 the dorsal fin. Vertical fins united with the caudal ; the 

 dorsal begins in the vertical to the base of the pectoral, the 

 anal a head-length behind the same level. Pectorals fine, 

 pointed, not quite as long as the postorbital portion of the 

 head. Ventrals simple filaments arising at the symphysis of 

 the pectoral arch ; in length equal to the postorbital portion of 

 the head. 



Colours in spirit uniform sepia-brown, with black fins. 



Stomach siphonal : one rudimentary and nine medium-sized 

 cteca in a ring round the pylorus. Air-bladder present. 



A single rather mutilated specimen 6^ inches long. 



Hah. Andaman Sea, 7^ miles east of North Cinque Island, 

 490 fathoms. 



Neobythites, Goode and Bean. 



Neohythites macrops^ Gthr. 



Neobythites macrops, Giinther, Zool. Chall. Exp. vol. xxii. p. 102, 

 pi. XX. fig. A. 



Several specimens from the Andaman Sea, off Ross Island, 

 in 265 to 271 fathoms. 



DiPLACANTHOPOMA, Gthr. 



Diplacanthopoma hrachysoma^ Gthr. 



DiplacantJiopoma hrachysoma, Giinther, Zool. Chall. Exp. vol. xxu. 

 p. 115, pi. xxiii. fig. C. 



A female 4^ inches long, with gravid ovaries. 

 Hah. Andaman Sea, 7^ miles east of North Cinque Island, 

 490 fathoms. 



