116 A. Alcock — Recent Collection of Bathyhial Fishes. [No. 2, 



From recent experience, as from experience gathered in the past, 

 it appears that the most promising ground for exploration, in these 

 Seas, is that which lies between 150 and 250 fathoms. 



I may state, in conclusion, that the species here described, but not 

 figured, will in all probability be figured in next year's issue (Part III.) 

 of Illustrations of the Royal Indian Marine Steamer ' Investigator.^ 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 

 Family Percidse. 



AcROPOMA, Schleg. 

 Pamscomhrops, Alcock, J. A. S. B., Vol. LVIII, pt. ii,, p. 296: ^Melanodoma, 

 Dbd., Deuk, Ak. Wieii, XLVIIL, p. 5. 



1. Acropoma philippinense, Gthr. 



Acropoma philippiiiense, Gthr. Zool. Chall. Exp, Vol. I., pt. vi., p. 51. 

 Farascomhrops pelhicidiis, Alcock, J. A. )S. B., 1889, Vol. LVIII., part ii., p. 

 296, Pi. XXII., fig. 1. 



This species is characteristic of the Bay of Bengal in water 

 between 75 and 150 fathoms deep. 



I take this opportunity of stating that the generic name Pamscom- 

 hrops proposed by me in 1889 for this species is only a synonym of 

 Acropoma, and must therefore be "withdrawn. 



Family Scorpsenidas. 



MiNOUs, C. V. 

 2. Minous inermis, Alcock. 



Minous inermis, Alcock, J. A. S. B., 1889, Vol. LVIII., pt. ii., p. 299, PI. XXII., 

 fig. 4 ; and Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sept. 1892, p. 207. 



Specimens of this species dredged this year in the Bay of Bengal 

 off Madras, at 133 fms., are encrusted with the same commensal Hydroid 

 (Styladis minoi) as the specimens dredged off the Mahanaddi, off the 

 Godavari, and off the Malabar Coast in previous years. This confirms 

 the already fairly well established opinion that the relation between 

 the Hydroid and the Fish is a fixed and definite one. 



Family Berycidse. 



HOPLOSTETHUS, C. V. 



3. Hoplostethus medilerraneum, C. V. 

 For SjTionomy, vide Giinther, ' Challenger' Deep-sea Fishes, p. 21. 

 A fine specimen dredged in the Bay of Bengal at Station 162, l-iS- 

 250 fms., is a new addition to the record of the Indian Fauna. 



