310 A. Alcock — Supplementary List of Indicm Fishes. [No. 3, 



mouth are entirely different. He appears to think that Thaumastomias 

 atrox is specifically identical with Photostomias guernei Collet {loo. cit.) 

 but a comparison of the descriptions of the two species will hardly be 

 held to justify this opiuion, 



§ 3. Supplementary List of the Fishes of India. 



Order CHONDROPTERYGII. 

 Family Scyllidae. 



SCYLLIUM. 



1. ScylUum hispidum, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) VIII. 

 1891, p. 21 : 111. Zool. ' Investigator,' Fishes, pi. viii. figs. 3, 3a. 



Andaman Sea in 188-220 fms. 



2. Scyllium ?canescens, Gthr. 



ScylUum canescens, Gunther, 'Challenger,' Deep Sea Fishes, p. 1, 

 pi. i. fig. A. 



A small specimen, from the Arabian Sea 690-620 fms., answers to Dr. 

 Giinther's description and figure, except only that the body is almost black. 



I. * Family Spinacidse. 



i, * Centroscyllium, M. & H. 



Centroscyllium, Miiller and Henle, Plagiostomen, p. 191 : Gunther, 

 Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. VIII. p. 425. 



Paracentroscyllium, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) IV. 1889, 

 p. 379 (immature form). 



3. CentroscylliuTYi ornatumy Alcock. 



. Paracentroscyllium ornatum, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) IV. 

 1889, p. 379 : 111. Zool. ' Investigator,' Fishes, pi. viii. fig. 2 : and ante 

 ^. 308. 



" Swatch," Bay of Bengal in 405-285 fms., and Arabian Sea, 690-620 fms. 



Family Rajidse. 

 ii. * Raja, Cuv. 



4. "Raja mammillidenSf Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) IV. 

 1889, p. 380 : 111. Zool. ' Investigator/ Fishes, pi. viii. fig. 1. 

 Gulf of Manaar at 597 fms. 



