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reaches nearly to the vertical througli tlie 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 ; tliroat and abdomen black, tirst 

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

 second dorsal and anal white. 



Subgenus Malacocephalus, Gthr, 



32. Macrurus hevisy Lowe. 



One specimen of this widely ranging deep-sea form was 

 taken at Station 115, in 188 to 220 fatlioms. 

 It measures a little more than a foot in length. 



BaTHYGADUS, Gthr. 



33. liatliygadus lonjijiUs^ Goode & Bean. 



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



Giiuther, 'Challenger' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 157. 

 Hymeiwcephahis lonyifilis, Vaillaiit, Exp, 8ci. Trav. et Talisiu., Poiss., 



pp. i>18-22],pl. xxiii. fig. 1. 

 Bathi/qadus lonyifilis, Alcock, Ann. & Mag. Xat. Ilist., Oct. 1890, 



p. bb2. 



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 indicusj sp. n. 



B. 8. D. 8. A. + C. 76. P. 12. V. 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 ; the 



