Indian Deep-sea Fishes. 151 



Named after Commander A. Dundas Taylor, late Indian 

 Navy, who, in the year 1874, was chiefly instrumental in 

 reviving the Marine Survey of India. 



Synaphobranchus, Johns. 



Synaphobranchus pinnatus (Gronov.), Gthr. 



Synaphobranchus pinnatus, Giinther, ' Challenger ' Deep-sea Fishes, 

 p. 253, pi. lxii. tnr. A (ubi synon.) ; Vaillant, Exp. Sci. ' Travailleur ' 

 et ' Talisman,' Poissons, p. 88, pi. vi. tigs. 2-2 c : Goode and Bean, 

 Oceanic Ichthyology, Mem. Mus. Oomp. Zool, xxxvi. 1896, p. 143, 



pi. xliv. fig. 1(34. 



Two specimens, identical with a ' Challenger ' duplicate of 

 this species — one from off' (he Maldives, 459 fath., the other 

 from off Cape Comorin, 824 fath. — are the first recorded from 

 Indian waters. 



This species has a most suggestive range : — Off Madeira 

 (Johnson), 740 fath.; off Morocco and neighbouring coasts, 

 Azores, Canaries, and Cape Verd Islands (' Travailleur ' 

 and 'Talisman 1 ), 405-3200 metres ; off Brazil, 1200 fath., 

 and in the seas of Japan and the Philippines, 345-565 fath. 

 (' Challenger ') ; off the Atlantic coasts of North America up 

 to 1000 fath. (' Fish-Hawk,' ' Albatross,' and' Blake'). 



ACANTIIOPTERYGII. 



Family Berycidae. 



MONOCENTRIS, CllV. & Val. 



Monocentris japonicus (Houtt.), Cuv. & Val. 



Monoce?itris japunicu*,(\\\ . k Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv. 401, pi. xcvii. ; 

 Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Japon., Poiss. p. 50, pi. xxii. tig. 1 ; Giinther, 

 Catalogue of Fishes, vol. i. p. 9. 



See also Castelnau, P. L. S. New South Wales, vol. iii. 1878, p. 365 ; 

 Hilgendorf, SB. Ges. nat. Freunde, Berlin, 1879, p. 22; Macleay, 

 P. L. S. N. S. Wales, vol. v. 1880-81, p. 510; Steindachner and 

 Doderlein, Denk. Ak. Wien, Ixvii. 1883, p. 217; Nystrom, Bihang 

 Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xiii. iv. no. 4, 1887, p. 4. 



A Hne specimen, 6 inches long, was taken in the Gulf of 

 Martaban (Andaman Sea) at 67 fath. 



This species, common in the seas of Japan, is said to have 

 also been taken at Port Jackson. It is only one of several 

 singular forms that the recent observations of the ' Investi- 

 gator ' have shown to be common to Indian and Japanese 

 waters at moderate depths. 



