1894.] A. Alcock — Recent Collection of Bathyh'al Fishes. 115 



King^s Collectors ! Distrib. Tropical and sub-tropical regions of both 

 hemisplieres. 



Leaves J-1 in. diarn. ; petioles sometimes 2 iu. (in Wallicli's specimens as much 

 as 4 in.) long, sepals about 1 line long. 



15. CUSCUTA Linn. 



1. CuSCUTA EEFLEXA Boxh. 



Add to localities of F, B. I. : 



Upper Bdrmah : Karen Hills, Mason ! Shan Hills, Collett ! King's 

 Collectors! Hotha, /. Anderson! 

 Add to distribution : — China. 

 4. CusctJTA CHiNENSTS LamTc. 

 Add to localities of F. B. I. :— 

 Upper Burmha : Shan Hills, King's Collectors ! 



Natural History Notes from H. M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer 

 * Investigator,' Commander C. F. Oldham, B. N., Commanding. Series 

 II., No, 11. An Account ofaBecent Collection of Bathyhial Fishes from 

 the Bay of Bengal and from the Laccadive Sea. — By A. Alcock, 

 M. B,, C M. Z. S., Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 



Plates YI& VII. 

 [Received 31st May: — Eead 6tli Jtine.] 



Introduction. 



The collection of deep-sea fishes recently added to the Indian 

 Museum through the exertions of the Marine Zoological Survey is a 

 large one and numbers many species, of which only those that appear to 

 be either hitherto unknown or new to the Indian record are here noticed. 



In the list of these new forms it is interesting to find Hoplostethus, 

 Thyrsites, JBemhrops, Poicilopsetta, Chlorophthalmus, Xenomystax, (a re- 

 markable deep-sea Eel of the Sauromurtenesocine alliance, lately dis- 

 covered by the U. S. Steamer ' Albatross ' off the coast of Ecuador, 

 and now appearing in the Laccadive Sea), Nemichthys, and Triacan- 

 thodes. 



The discovery in these waters of representatives of these genera 

 shows that the exploration of the Indian Seas is still far from complete, 

 and leads us to hope that other unaccountable gaps in our knowledge of 

 the geogi-aphical relations of the fish fauna of India may yet be filled up. 



