1 18 A. Aicock — iS,ecent Collection of BatJiyhial Fishes. [No. 2, 



The largest specimen measures 5"25 incties. 



Loc. Bay of Bengal, Station 162, 145/250 fathoms. This species has 

 the true bathybial fades. 



Family Trachinida3. 



Grroup Trachinina. 



Bembeops, Steindachner. 



Bemhrops, Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wieu, 1877, Vol. LXXIV.,pt. i., p. 211. 

 Bathypercis, Aicock, J. A. S. B. 1893, Vol. LXII., pt. ii., p. 177. 



5. Bemhrops caicdimacula, StcTr. 



Bemhrops caudimacula, Stdr., SB. Ak. Wien, 1877, Vol. LXXIV., pt. i., p. 212. 



Two small specimens of this species were dredged in the Bay of 

 Bengal, at Station 170, 107 fathoms, this being the first report of the 

 occurrence of the species in Indian waters. 



6. Benibrops platyrhjnchus, (Aicock). 

 Batliypercis platyrhynchus, Aicock, J. A. S. B., 1893, Vol. LXII., pt. ii,, p. 178. 



Bay of Bengal, 128 fathoms. 



I must apologize to Professor Steindachner for having, when des- 

 cribing this species last year, overlooked his very clear and complete 

 account of his new genus Bemhrops from Japan ; and I must now state 

 that Batliypercis is merely a synonym of Bemhrops, and must be with- 

 drawn. 



Family Pediculati. 



LoPHius, Art. 

 7. Lophius lugiihrisy n. sp. 



Very closely allied to L. mutilus, mihi. 



B. 6. D. 3/1/7-8. A. 5-6 C. 8. P. 13. V. 1/5. 



Cephalic disk subcircular, its diameter not quite one-half the 

 total (caudal included) : its upper surface studded with scattered knobs 

 and spines, none of which are of predominant size : the mouth-cleft 

 traverses the whole breadth of the disk. 



Depressible fangs in a single series along the premaxillary, except 

 at the symphysis, where there are also a few small teeth of a second 

 series ; and in three irregular series in the mandible. A single rigid 

 fang, or a pair, at either extremity of tbe head of the vomer; and 

 an uneven row of 4 or 5 rigid fangs along each palatine. 



Eyes small, their major diameter being about one-seventh the 



