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reaches nearly to the vertical through the posterior border of 

 the orbit ; the pectorals reach to the sixth anal ray. 



Colours in life : — Head and iris silvery ; body pinkish 

 brown, with a silvery sheen ; throat and abdomen black, first 

 dorsal, ventrals, and pectorals with black base and white tips, 

 second dorsal and anal white. 



Subgenus Malacocephalus, Gthr. 



32. Macrurus loivis, Lowe. 



One specimen of this widely ranging deep-sea form was 

 taken at Station 115, in 188 to 220 fathoms. 

 It measures a little more than a foot in length. 



Bathygadus, Gthr. 



33. Batliggadus longijilis^ Goode «& Bean. 



Bathygadtis lonyifilis, G. & B., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 599 ; and 



Giinther, •' Challenger ' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 157. 

 Hymenocephalus lonyifilis, Vaillant, Exp. Sci. Trav. et Talisni., Poiss., 



pp. 218-22],pl. xxiii. fig. 1. 

 Bathygadus longifilis, Alcock, Ann. & Mag, Nat. Hist., Oct, 1890, 



p. 302, 



A very fine and perfect male specimen, 13"25 inches long, 

 was taken at Station 113, in 683 fathoms. It has the 

 formula 



B. 7. D. 12/130. P. 14. V. 8. L, lat. 150. 

 L. tr. 25 through vent. 



The barbel is nearly two thirds the length of the head and 

 much longer than the barbel of the large female specimen 

 caught last year in the Laccadive Sea. 



Family Ateleopodidae. 



Ateleopus, Schleg. 



34. Ateleopus indicus^ sp. n. 



B. 8. D. 8. A. + C. 76. P. 12. ¥.2. 



Soft tissues almost gelatinous, skeleton cartilaginous. 



Head broad and acutely conical, body and tail much com- 

 pressed and tapering. 



The length of the head is equal to that of the rest of the 

 trunk and is contained about 5f times in the total ; tlie 



