294 A. Alcoolc— Zw/ 0/ Pleuronectidos from flie Bay of Bengal. [No. 3, 



named this species after Dr. G. M. Giles, wlio, in tlio ' Investigator,' 

 lias added so many deep-sea fistes to the Indian collection. 



29. Aphoristia wood-masoni, n. sp., PI. XVII, Fig. 1. 



B. 5. D. 90. A. VS. C. 14. V. 4. L. lat. circ. 85. L. tr. ciro. 34. 



Eody lanceolate ; its greatest height, which is just behind the 

 vertical middle, is 4i in the total. Head much expanded iu the oper- 

 cular region ; its length 5f in the total, and 4f times the length of 

 the snout, which terminates in an abrupt straight edge. 



Snout and jaws covered with small scales. Eyes situated just within 

 the anterior third of the head ; the upper very slightly in advance ; 

 their length one-seventh that of the head. 



The interocular space is scaly, with two rows of scales, which en- 

 croach on the margins of the eyes. There is a simple nostril between 

 the eyes anteriorly, and a tubular nostril as long as the eye midway 

 between the lower eye and the tij) of the snout. Cleft of mouth hori- 

 zontal, with a slight down-curve at its angle, which hardly passes behind 

 the vertical from the front edge of the lower eye. Dentition feeble, 

 and more deyeloped on the blind side. Gill-cleft low : branchiostegal 

 rays and membrane prolonged beyond the opercular edge. Scales 

 ctenoid on both sides : rather deciduous. The dorsal fin begins above 

 the middle of the upper eye : its first two rays are approximated, but 

 the next seven are separated by wide interspaces and connected together 

 only in their lower part : the longest dorsal rays, near the middle of 

 the fin, are contained 3|- times in the body height, and the longest anal 

 rays are slightly longer. The distance of the origin of the anal from 

 the snout is equal to the body-height. The ventral is separated from 

 the anal by almost its own length. Length of the caudal one-ninth of 

 the total. Colours in spirit, bluish-grey on both sides, with a broad 

 blue-black band all round each side, occupying the whole extent and 

 breadth of the regions of the inter-neural and interhaemal spines, and 

 very numerous parallel black lines extending from snout to candal 

 through the middle of each row of scales : operole black : fins black, 

 except the caudal which is grey. Total length 5 inches. One specimen. 



Dredged 7| miles E. of North Cinque Island (Andamans), iu 490 

 fathoms, by Professor Wood-Mason ou board the ' Investigator.' 



