142 Mr. A. Aleock on 



Smithsonian Institution, and it is identical with the species 

 that I had described and figiired as Bemhrops platyrhynchus. 



Bembrops gohioides (Goode), which appears to be a common 

 species in tlie Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico at depths 

 of from 68 to 324 fath., has been dredged by the ' investi- 

 gator ' off the Madras coast in 128 fath., and in the Anda- 

 man Sea at 185 and 194 fath. 



I take this opportunity of giving the synonymy of the 

 genus and species : — 



Bembrops, Steindachner. 



Betnbrops, Steindacliner, SB. Ak. Wien,lxxiv. 1877, i. p. 211 ; Aleock, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. Ixiii. 1894, pt. 2, p. 118, and vol. Ixv. 



1896, pt. 2, p. 316. 

 Hi/j)sico)netes, Goode, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. 1880, p. 347 ; Giintlier, 



' Challenger ' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 85 ; Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 808 ; Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 290. 

 Bathypercis, Aleock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. Ixii. 1893, pt. 2, 



p. 177. 



Bemhrops gohioides (Goode). 



Hypsicometes gohioides, Goode, loc. cit. ; Giintlier, he. cit. ; Jordan and 



Gilbert, loc. cit. ; Goode and Bean, loc. cit. fig. 263. 

 Bathypercis platyrhynchus^ Aleock, loc. cit. pi. ix. fig. 1. 

 Bembrops platyrhynchus, Aleock, loc. cit. 



I have only to add that my description and figure were 

 made from a young individual ; in the adult, of which we 

 have lately received several specimens from the ' luvesti- 

 gator,' the proportions of the body are different. 



§ 3. General Composition of the Deep-sea Fish-fauna of 

 India. 



As regards the composition of the deep-sea fish-fauna of 

 India, so far as our present knowledge goes, it is made up as 

 follows : — 



Chondropterygii, about 4 per cent. 

 Acanthopterygii, ,, 24 ,, 

 Anacanthini, ,, 35 „ 



Physostomi, „ 36 „ 



Plectognathi, ,, 0"6 „ 



In these, as in other seas, certain families are characteristic 

 of the depths. They are : — 



