Indian Deep-sen Dredgimj. 129 



Bathypterois, Gtlir. 



41. BathyiHerois Ouentheri^ Alcock. 



Bathiipterois Gucntheri, Alcock, Ann. & Mai^. Nat. Hist., Dec. 18.Si>, 

 p. 4.50. 



One well-preserved specimen from Station 112, 561 fathoms. 



SCOPELUS, Gthr. 



42. Scopelns engraulis^ Gthr. 



Scopelus engrmdis, Giintlier, 'Challenger' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 197, 

 pi. li. fig. C. 



Two specimens (one young, the other a mature female 

 nearly 5*5 inches long) from Station 115, 188 to 220 fathoms. 



There are seven large pyloric cseca, and an air-bladder is 

 apparently absent. 



In the young specimen, which is not quite 2*5 inches long, 

 the diameter of the eye is still contained 4^ times in the 

 length of the head, and is greater than the width of the inter- 

 orbital space. 



Neoscopelus, Johnson. 



43. Neoscopelus macrolepidotus^ Johnson. 



Neoscopebis inacrolepidotux, Johnson, P. Z. S, 1863, p. 44, pi. vii. 

 Scopelus macrolepidotus, Giinther, Cat. Fish. v. p. 414, and 'Challen- 

 ger ' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 190. 



Four fine specimens from Station 115, 188 to 220 fathoms, 

 all sexually mature. 



Colours in the fresli state : — Head, iris, sides of tongue, 

 and belly burnished silver, dorsum of body plum-purple. 

 Hanks golden. 



Family Stomiatidse. 



Stomias, Cuvier. 



44. Stomias elongatus^ sp. n. 



D. 19. A. 21. P. 6. V. 6. 



Body compressed, low, its height being one fifteenth of the 

 total without the caudal ; the length of the head measured 

 from the tip of the mandible is about one tenth of the same. 



Eye circular_, its diameter not quite one fourth of the head- 

 length, and equal to the width of the interorbital space. 



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