of the Bay of Bengal &e. 395 
The second dorsal spine is produced into a long filament and 
is nearly twice the length of the elongated head, or about half 
the total length of the fish ; the basal portion has twenty 
close-set semirecumbent barbs and the filament several distant 
more upright spinelets. The outer ventral ray produced into 
a filament not quite so long as the fin. 
Colours in spirit :—Grey ; first dorsal, pectorals, and ven- 
trals black, the dorsal filament white. 
Ten large, long, pyloric ceca; intestine much coiled. An 
air-bladder. 
One specimen, a female, 94 inches long, with gravid ovaries. 
Hab. Andaman Sea, south-east by south of Ross Island, 
in 265 fathoms. 
Macrurus lophotes, sp. nov. 
BAG. 1D. PectVi-9. 
Head rather square. Snout with a very prominent nasal 
tubercle, a little longer than the eye, which is 44 in the head- 
length and wider than the interorbital space. Mouth inferior, 
its cleft reaching the vertical from the middle of the orbit. 
Barbel very small. Teeth in broadish villiform bands in 
both jaws, the upper jaw with a slightly enlarged outer row. 
Scales very small, with five short, longitudinal, parallel series 
of long, rather recumbent spinelets, the distal ones projecting 
far beyond the edge of the scale. Six rows of scales between 
the first dorsal fin and the lateral line. The second dorsal 
spine, which is produced into a long filament, is nearly twice 
as long as the head and armed along its entire extent with 
thirty semirecumbent barbs. Ventrals with the outer ray 
produced into a filament. 
Colours in spirit :—Pinkish grey ; opercles black. 
‘T'wo specimens, 5 inches long, in fragments. 
Hab. Bay of Bengal, the “Swatch,” in 285 to 405 fathoms. 
The specimens are far too much spoilt for complete descrip- 
tion. 
Macrurus polylepis, sp. nov. 
Bie web) Bl (12).. A. circ. 140.) Ps.19: ., Ve, 10, 
Head deep, compressed, rather square, rising steeply from 
behind the orbits to the first dorsal fin, much higher than 
the low tapering body. Tail extremely long, filiform. Snout 
shorter than the large eye, with a prominent spiny nasal 
tubercle, flanked on each side by a rough marginal knob. 
