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taken. Several specimens of FldbeUum lacimatum, Phil., 

 also occurred. 



Station 133.— Bay of Bengal, lat. 15° 43' 30" N., long. 

 81° 19' 30" E., 678 fatiionis ; bottom brown mud hardening 

 into c\i\y ; bottom temperature 42° Fahr. Over one lumdred 

 fine specimens of a species of Phormosoma were taken, and 

 many specimens of Flahellum japonicum^ Moseley, and Bathy- 

 actis symmetrica^ Pourtal?is. 



Station 134. — Bay of Bengal, about 30 miles S.W. of the 

 last, 753 fathoms ; bottom brown mud hardening into clay ; 

 bottom temperature 41°*2 Fahr. Phormosoinas, Spatangoids, 

 and Flahellum corals were of noteworthy occurrence. 



Station 135.— Off Konkan coast, lat. 15° 29' N., long. 

 72° 41' E., 559 fathoms ; bottom green mud with a good 

 many foraminifera shells ; bottom temperature 47° Fahr. 

 Here the most interesting captures were several specimens of 

 Brisinga, a stalked Crinoid, and two individuals of a Sipun- 

 culus with ova floating free in the body-cavity. In a second 

 haul, close by, some dead branches of a Lopholielia were 

 dredged — the first Oculinoid coral reported from the coasts of 

 India. 



§ 2. Descrijjtions of the Fishes, with some brief notes on the 

 Ova and on some peculiarities of the Enteric Mucosa of 

 certain Deep-sea Fishes. 



The bathybial fishes obtained during the season of 1891-92 

 number twenty-seven species, which include eight new to 

 science. Of types not hitherto recorded from India there 

 must here be noticed Xenodermichthys, Lcptoderma, Uro- 

 conyer, and, if the discovery of an empty egg-capsule be 

 accepted as sufficient evidence, Chinuera. 



Order CHONDROPTERYGII. 



Suborder HOLOCEPHALA. 



Family CMmseridje. 



CuiMJiiRA, Linn. 



1. Chimmra monstrosaj Linn.? 



From Station 131, 410 fathoms, there comes an empty egg- 

 capsule in very good preservation, which, from Dr. Gunther's 

 figure and description in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, for 



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