of the Bay of Bengal c^c. 395 



The second dorsal spine is produced into a long filament and 

 is nearly twice the length of the elongated head, or about half 

 the total length of the fish ; the basal portion has twenty 

 close-set semirecurabent barbs and the filament several distant 

 more upright spinelets. The outer ventral ray produced into 

 a filament not quite so long as the fin. 



Colours in spirit : — Grey ; first dorsal, pectorals, and ven- 

 trals black, the dorsal filament white. 



Ten large, long, pyloric ca3ca ; intestine much coiled. An 

 air-bladder. 



One specimen, a female, 9|- inches long, with gravid ovaries. 



Hah. Andaman Sea, south-east by south of Ross Island, 

 in 265 fathoms. 



Macrurus lophotes, sp. nov. 

 B. 6. D. 13. V. 9. 



Head rather square. Snout with a very prominent nasal 

 tubercle, a little longer than the eye, which is 4^ in the head- 

 length and wider than the interorbital space. Mouth inferior, 

 its cleft reaching the vertical from the middle of the orbit. 

 Barbel very small. Teeth in broadish villiform bands in 

 both jaws, the upper jaw with a slightly enlarged outer row. 

 Scales very small, with five short, longitudinal, parallel series 

 of long, rather recumbent spinelets, the distal ones projecting 

 far beyond the edge of the scale. Six rows of scales between 

 the first dorsal fin and the lateral line. The second dorsal 

 spine, which is produced into a long filament, is nearly twice 

 as long as the head and armed along its entire extent with 

 thirty semirecumbent barbs. Ventrals with the outer ray 

 produced into a filament. 



Colours in spirit : — Pinkish grey ; opercles black. 



Two specimens, 5 inches long, in fragments. 



Ilab. Bay of Bengal, the " Swatch," in 285 to 405 fathoms. 



The specimens are far too much spoilt for complete descrip- 

 tion. 



Macrurus poly lepzs, sp. nov. 



B. 7. D. 11 (12). A. circ. 140. P. 19. V. 10. 



Head deep, compressed, rather square, rising steeply from 

 behind the orbits to the first dorsal fin, much higher than 

 the low tapering body. Tail extremely long, filiform. Snout 

 shorter than the large eye, with a prominent spiny nasal 

 tubercle, flanked on each side by a rough marginal knob. 



