of the Bay of Bengal &c, 390 



I have little hesitation in referring our specimen to this 

 species (described from a single specimen obtained bj the 

 'Challenger' between the Philippine Islands and Borneo), 

 with which it agrees in almost every detail. In our specimen, 

 however, the height of the body is contained once and one 

 third in the total length, without the caudal ; the eye is half 

 the length of the head ; the occipital spine is unsymmetri- 

 cally bitid ; each denticulation of the abdominal ridge is armed 

 with several small vertical spines ; the adipose dorsal fin is 

 hardly visible; and the pectoral fins point backwards in the 

 usual way. 



Total length 2\ inches. 



IJab. Bay of Bengal, between North and South Sentinel 

 Islands, in 220 to 240 fathoms. 



GONOSTOMA, Rafin. 



Oonostoma microdon, Gthr. 



Gonostoma microdon, Giintlier, Anu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, vol. ii. 



p. 188. 

 Cyclothone lusca, Goode and Bean, Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool. vol. x. 1883, 



p. 221. 

 Gonostoma microdon, Giinth. Zool. Cball. Exp. vol. xxii. p. 175. 



Hob. Bay of Bengal, 30 miles west of Middle Andaman 

 Island, in 485 fathoms ; Andaman Sea, 7 miles south-east by 

 south of Eoss Island, in 265 fathoms. 



Chauliodus, B1. Schn. 



Chauliodus Sloaniij Bl. Schn. 



Chauliodus Sloanii, Oatesby, Carol. Siippl. p. 9, pi. ix,* ; Bl. Schn. 

 p. 430* ; Cuv. & Val. vol. xxii. p. 383. 



Chauliodus setinotus, Bl. Schn. tab. Ixxxv.* 



Esox stomias, Shaw, Zool. vol. v. p. 120, tab. iii. 



Chauliodus Sehneideri, Bisso, Eur. Merid. vol. iii. p. 442, fig. 37, 



Chatdiodus setinotus, Bouap. Faun. Ital., Pesc. c. tig. 



Stomias Sehneideri {&to?nias boa), Cuv. liegne Anim. 111. Poiss. 

 pi. xcvii. tig. 3. 



Chauliodus Sloanii, Giinth. Fishes, vol. v. p. .392 (to which I am in- 

 debted for the above references, marked with an asterisk, where I 

 have not had the opportunity of referring). 



Chauliodus, Cuv. Regne Anim., Poissons, p. 232. 



Chauliodus Sloanii, Giinth. Zool. Chall. Exp. vol. xxii. p. 179. 



Hab. Bay of Bengal, Carpenter's Ridge, lat. 5° 56^ N., 

 long. 91° 05' E., in 1590 fathoms ; Gulf of Manaar, lat. 6° 

 29' N., long. 79° 34' E., in 597 fathoms. 



[To bo continued.] 



