II. Only the left side colour- 

 ed, striped with cross-bands : 

 height of the body markedly-^ 

 less than one-foui'th the total 

 (with caudal). 



1894.] A. Alcock — Recent GollecHon of Bathybial Fishes. ]33 



1. The length of the head is 

 one-fourth the total (without 

 caudal) : mouth-cleft lar^e, 

 reaching well beyond the middle 

 of the lower eye : the largest rays 

 of the vertical fins are more than 

 half the greatest body-height : 

 three cross-bands A. trifasciata. 



2. The length of the head 

 is one-fifth the total (without 

 caudal) : mouth-cleft small, 

 hardly surpassing the front 

 edge of the lower eye : the long- 

 est rays of the vertical fins are 

 from two-fifths to one-third 

 the greatest body height : six 



or seven cross-bands A. septemstriata. 



PHYSOSTOML 

 Family Scopelidse. 



Chloeophthalmus, Bonap. 



21. ChloropMhalmus corniger, n, sp., PI, VI., fig. 5. 

 B. 8. D. 11. A. 9. P. 14. V. 1/S. L. lat. circ. 55. 



Closely allied to ChloropMhalmus productus, Gthr. (' Challenger ' 

 Deep-Sea Fishes, p. 193, pi. L., D.), from which it appears to differ 

 only in colour, and in having a pair of strong flat spines on either side 

 of the salient mandibular symphysis. 



Colours in spirit silvery-grey with numerous broad ill-defined 

 dusky cross-bands : fins hyaline, the tip of the caudal and the base and 

 tip of the dorsal black. 



The largest specimen measures a little over 3 inches. 



Loc. Bay of Bengal, Station 152 ; 145-250 fathoms. 



Family Mursenidse. 



Grroup Anguillina. 



CONGROMUBJINA, Kaup. 



22. Congromursena Tnusteliceps, n. sp., PI. VII., fig. 5. 

 Allied to C. megastoma, Grtlir., G. squaliceps, C. nasica and C. macro- 



cercus ( = (7. longicauda, Alcock, nee Ramsay and Ogilby). 



Head about an eye-length longer than the trunk, which is one- 

 fourth the length of the tail. 



The snout, which is long narrow and acutely pointed and far 

 over-hangs the mouth, is between one-fourth and two-ninths the length 

 of the head, and twice the major diameter of the eye. The anterior 

 nostril is a short tube situated on the lip near the tip of the snout, 



