of the Bay of Bengal. 201 



Brephostoma, Alcock. 



2. Brephostoma Carpenteri. (PI. IX. fig. 4.) 



Brephostoma Carpenteri, Alcock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Nov. IB 9, 

 p. 383. 



More careful examination of this fish, now that it has been 

 delineated, leads me to the conclusion that instead of being 

 related to the Trachinidaj it has close aftinities with Poma- 

 tomtis, Risso ; and I take this opportunity of placing it in 

 what I believe to be its proper natural position in the group 

 Apogonina. 



If this position be conceded, the following diagnosis of the 

 genus should be sufficient : — 



Head-bones and opercles unarmed; preoperculum with a 

 double edge. Mouth edentulous. Eyes large. Two separate 

 dorsal fins, the first with five spines. Anal fin with one 

 spine and similar to second dorsal. Scales large, adherent, 

 ctenoid. Seven branchiostegals. Pyloric cteca in moderate 

 number. No air-bladder. 



Parascombiiops, Alcock. 

 3. Parascomhrops pelluciduSj Alcock. 



rarascomlrops ])ellucidus, Alcock, Joiu'q. As. Soc. Beng. vol. Iviii. pt. ii. 

 pp. 296, 297, pl. xxii. tig. 1. 



About one hundred specimens were taken at Station 96 

 (98-102 fathoms), none of them being more than 4 inches 

 long; many were mature females. The fades o£ this tish (of 

 which one specimen had previously been found in G8 and one 

 in 65 fathoms) decidedly inclines to the bathybial. 



Family Berycidae. 

 Melamphaes, Giinther. 



4. Melamphaes mizolepis^ Gthr. 



Melamphaes mizolepis, Giinther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, vol. ii. 

 p. 185 ; and Zool. Cliall. Exp. vol. xxii. p. 28. 



A mutilated specimen, which corresponds in almost every 



verifiable particular with the diagnosis of this species, was 



dredg-ed at Station 97, in 1310 fathoms. The radial formula 



. . 1 



of onr specimen is D. rr, A. ^, V. -jj_y7. 



A single scale was found still adherent to the thorax j it 



