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



mouth are entirely different. He appears to think that Thaumastomias 

 atrox is specifically identical with Photostomias guernei Collet (loc. cit. ) 

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

 held to justify this opinion. 



§ 3. Supplementary List of the Fishes of India. 



Order CHONDROPTERYGII. 

 Family Scyllidse. 



SCTLLIDM. 



1. Scyllium Mspidum, Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) VIII. 

 1891, p. 2 J : 111. Zool. ' Investigator,' Fishes, pi. viii. figs. 3, 3a. 



Andaman Sea in 188-220 fms. 



2. Scyllium fcanescens, Gthr. 



Scyllium canescens, Giinther, ' 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 : Gfinther, 

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



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

 p. 379 (immature form). 



3. Centroscyllium ornatum, Alcock. 



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

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

 p. 308. 



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



Family Rajidse. 



ii. * Raja, Cuv. 



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

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



Gulf of Manaar at 597 fms. 



