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- 1st D and 1st A have their 5th and 6th rays as long as the greatest 
depth of the body, the fins decreasing rapidly to the first and last 
rays. The 2nd D and A are much shorter rayed and close to OC, and 
the space between them and their preceding fins is occupied by a row 
of short rays each with a basal membrane. Pectoral, small, broad, and 
pointed. C very small, and bilobed, the lower lobe blunter and 
shorter than the upper. Ventral, 3 first rays filiform, the 2nd 
reaching to the space between the two anals; Ist and 3rd a little 
shorter; 4th and 5th ordinary and membranous. 
Colour.* Pale ochreous grey, or horn colour, blackish along back, 
from minute dots powdered along edges of scales. Snout and head, red 
earneous. Iris, greenish silver. Fins black, with whitish bases, 
except Vs which are fleshy white. A rectangular patch of black 
above gill plates. Gill plates nacreous. 
The specimen here figured is the largest of 4 or 5 obtained in the 
fish market of Akyab. The fish is not described by Cantor in his 
ichthyological catalogue of the Straits, and Cuvier and Valenciennes’ 
great work, which is incomplete, does not include the Malacopterygii 
Subbrachiati. None of the Gadide (Cod family) have as yet been 
noticed in India, and the present subject is one of peculiar interest on 
that account: that is, if my allocation of it should prove correct, of 
which I think there can be little doubt, on an examination of the 
structure of the fish. In the synopsis of Cuvier’s Regne Animal there 
is no genus amongst the Gadidw which resembles it : but it may rank 
next to Phycis (Artedi.) 
It does not appear uncommon. In October 1862 I procured four 
or five specimens from the estuary of the Koladyn at Akyab, and from 
Kyoukphyoo. Two of these I do myself the pleasure of forwarding 
to the Museum of the Asiatic Society. The alcohol in which they 
are preserved, has very little affected their natural colour, 
* Fresh specimen, 

