of the Bay of Bengal. 201 



Beephostoma, Alcock. 



2. Brephostoma Carpenteri. (PI. IX. fig. 4.) 



Brephostoma Carpenteri, Alcock, Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist., Nov. 1889, 

 p. 383. 



More careful examination of this fish, now that it has been 

 delineated, leads me to the conclusion that instead of being 

 related to the Trachinida3 it has close affinities with Poma- 

 tomus, Risso ; and I take this opportunity of placing it in 

 what I believe to be its proper natural position in the group 

 Apogonina. 



If this position be conceded, the following diagnosis of the 

 genus should be sufficient : — 



Head-bones and opercles unarmed; preoperculum with a 

 double edge. Mouth edentulous. Eyes large. Two separate 

 dorsal fins, the first with five spines. Anal fin with one 

 spine and similar to second dorsal. Scales large, adherent, 

 ctenoid. Seven branchiostegals. Pyloric cseca in moderate 

 number. No air-bladder. 



Paeascombrops, Alcock. 



3. Parascomhrops pelluciduSj Alcock. 



Parascomhrops pellucidus, Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. Iviii. pt. ii. 

 pp. 296, 297, pl. xxii. fig. 1. 



About one hundred specimens were taken at Station 96 

 (98-102 fathoms), none of them being more than 4 inches 

 long; many were mature females. The^acies of this fish (of 

 which one specimen had previously been found in 68 and one 

 in 65 fathoms) decidedly inclines to the bathybial. 



Family Berycidae. 

 MelamphaeS, Giinther. 



4. MelampTiaes mizolepis^ Gthr. 



MelamphaeS mizolepis, Giinther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, vol. ii. 

 p. 185 ; and Zool. Cliall. Exp. vol. xxii. p. 28. 



A mutilated specimen, which corresponds in almost every 

 verifiable particular with the diagnosis of this species, was 

 dredged at Station 97, in 1310 fathoms. The radial formula 

 of our specimen is D. rr, A. J, V. ij_y7. 



A single scale was found still adherent to the thorax j it 



