142 Mr. A. Alcock on 



Smithsonian Institution, and it is identical with the species 

 that I had described and figured as Bembrops platyrhynchus. 



Bembrops gobioides (Goode), which appears to be a common 

 species in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico at depths 

 of from 68 to 324 fath., has been dredged by the ' Investi- 

 gator ' off the Madras coast in 128 fath., and in the Anda- 

 man Sea at 185 aud 194 fath. 



I take this opportunity of giving the synonymy of the 

 genus and species : — 



Bembrops, Steindachner. 



Bembrops, Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien,lxxiv. 1877, i. p. 211 ; Alcock, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. lxiii. 1894, pt. 2, p. 118, and vol. lxv. 



1896, pt. 2, p. 316. 

 Hypsicometes, Goode, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. Hi. 1880. p. 347 ; Giintker, 



' Challenger' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 85 ; Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 808 ; Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 290. 

 Bathypercis, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. lxii. 1893, pt. 2, 



p. 177. 



Bembrops gobioides (Goole). 



Hypsicometes gobioides, Goode, loc. cit.; Giinther, he. tit. : Jordan and 



Gilbert, he. cit. ; Goode and Bean, loc. cit. fig. 263. 

 Bathypercis platyrhynchus, Alcock, he. cit. pi. ix. tig. 1. 

 Bembrops platyrhynchus, Alcock, he. cit. 



I have only to add that my description and figure were 

 made from a young individual ; in the adult, of which we 

 have lately received several specimens from the ' Investi- 

 gator,' the proportions of the body are different. 



§ 3. General Composition of the Deep-sea Fish-fauna of 

 India. 



■ As regards the composition of the deep-sea fish-fauna of 

 India, so far as our present knowledge goes, it is made up as 

 follows : — 



Chondropterygii, about 4 per cent. 

 Acanthopterygii, „ 24 ,, 

 Anacanthini, ,, 35 „ 



Physostomi, „ 36 „ 



Plectognathi, „ - 6 „ 



In these, as in other seas, certain families are characteristic 

 of the depths. They are : — 



