THE .\.NNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SGllIES.] 

 No. 59. NOVEMBER 1892. 



XL. — Natural History Notes from H.M.Indian Marine Survey 

 Steamer ' Investigator^^ Lieut. G. S. Gunn, B.N, com- 

 manding. — Series II., No. 5. On the BatJiybial Fishes 

 collected during the Season of 1891-92. By A. Alcock, 

 M.B., Suvgeon-Natiiralist to the Survey. 



[Plate XVm.] 



On fifteen occasions during the course of her recent surveys 

 of the Laccadive Islands and Coromandel coast the ' Investi- 

 gator ' carried out successful trawlings in the deep-sea. The 

 fishes described in tliis paper were taken on twelve of these 

 occasions, and as a preface to the descri|)tions of the fishes a 

 brief notice of tlie principal features of the stations at which 

 they were trawled may be given. 



§ 1. .4 brief notice of the Trawling- Stations. 



Station 121.— Laccadive Sea, lat. 14° 35' 15" N., long. 

 72° 02' 37" E., 1140 fathoms ; bottom grey calcareous (coral) 

 ooze ; bottom temperature 37°*5 Fahr. A poor ground, 

 except in Ilolothurians, of which some good specimens of 

 Benthodgtes and Psychropotes were taken, the gelatinous 

 dorsal a})pendage of the latter being larger tlian the body of 

 the animal itself. 



Station 122.— Laccadive Sea, lat. 12° 05' 56" N., long. 

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