1865.] On a- New Genus of the Gadidce. 33 



1st D and 1st A have their 5th and 6th rays as long as the greatest 

 depth of the body, the fins decreasing rapidly to the first and last 

 rays. The 2nd D and A are much shorter rayed and close to C, and 

 the space between them and their preceding fins is occupied by a row 

 of short rays each with a basal membrane. Pectoral, small, broad, and 

 pointed. C very small, and bilobed, the lower lobe blunter and 

 shorter than the upper. Ventral, 3 first rays filiform, the 2nd 

 reaching to the space between the two anals ; 1st and 3rd a little 

 shorter ; 4th and 5th ordinary and membranous. 



Colour* Pale ochreous grey, or horn colour, blackish along back, 

 from minute dots powdered along edges of scales. Snout and head, red 

 carneous. Iris, greenish silver. Fins black, with whitish bases, 

 except Ys which are fleshy white. A rectangular patch of black 

 above gill plates. Gill plates nacreous. 



The specimen here figured is the largest of 4 or 5 obtained in the 

 fish market of Akyab. The fish is not described by Cantor in his 

 ichthyological catalogue of the Straits, and Cuvier. and Valenciennes' 

 great work, Avhich is incomplete, does not include the Malacopterygii 

 Subbrachiati. None of the Gaclicla? (Cod family) have as yet been 

 noticed in India, and the present subject is one of peculiar interest on 

 that account : that is, if my allocation of it should prove correct, of 

 which I think there can be little doubt, on an examination of the 

 structure of the fish. In the synopsis of Cuvier's Regne Animal there 

 is no genus amongst the Gadidse which resembles it : but it may rank 

 next to Phycis (Artedi.) 



It does not appear uncommon. In October 1862 I procured four 

 or five specimens from the estuary of the Koladyn at Akyab, and from 

 Kyoukphyoo. Two of these I do myself the pleasure of forwarding 

 to the Museum of the Asiatic Society. The alcohol in which they 

 are preserved, has very little affected their natural colour. 

 * Fresh specimen. 



