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the rest of the body being small and covered with semierect 
spinelets arranged quincuncially—six deep in the middle line 
of the scale. Seven rows of scales between the first dorsal 
fin and the lateral line. The interval between the dorsal fins 
is equal to the length of the postorbital portion of the head. 
First dorsal spine almost invisible, second long and smooth 
throughout. Outer ventral ray produced into a filament 
longer than the fin. Pectorals long and slender. 
Colours in spirit :—Silvery, with small black dots; throat 
and abdomen black ; iris silvery. 
Hight pyloric ceca. An air-bladder. 
Maximum length 64 inches. 
Five specimens, two of which are females with gravid 
ovaries. 
Hab. Andaman Sea, off Ross Isiand, in 265 to 271 fathoms ; 
Bay of Bengal, between North and South Sentinel Islands, 
in 220 to 240 fathoms. 
Subgenus CHALINURUS (Goode and Bean). 
Macrurus hispidus, sp. nov. 
De TL PSlOhieves: 
Head compressed. ‘Taillong and tapering. Snout slightly 
overhanging the upper jaw, short, truncated, with a small 
abrupt nasal tubercle. Eye in diameter 3} in the head-length, 
one fourth longer than the snout, and exceeding the width of 
the interorbital space. Cleft of mouth lateral, extending to 
the vertical from the middle of the orbit. Barbel stout, as 
long as the eye. ‘Teeth in four ranks in the premaxilla, those 
in the outer rank large, those in the inner ranks minute ; 
mandibular teeth uniserial, large. Opercular region very 
long and deep; preoperculum almost square. Gill-openings 
wide; the gill-membranes united only at the very front. 
Attachment of the first branchial arch to the wall of the gill- 
cavity narrow. Scales thin, deciduous, of a uniform rather 
small size on the body. A scale from the abdomen has from 
fourteen to eighteen weak, semierect, yielding spines, arranged 
in five short, very oblique, equidistant rows. Six rows of scales 
between the first dorsal fin and the lateral line. The interval 
between the dorsal fins is equal to the length of the head 
behind the middle of the orbit. Second dorsal spine with 
numerous small semirecumbent spines. 
Colours in life uniform blackish ; cheeks and iris silvery. 
One specimen, 6? inches long, much injured. 
Hab. Bay of Bengal, between North and South Sentinel 
Islands, in 220 to 240 fathoms. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. Vol. iv. 28 
