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A. Alcock — Descriptions of some neio and rare [No. 3, 



opercular border is completed by a tougli membranous extension upwards 

 of the suboperculum. Of the three pairs of spines beneath the lower jaw, 

 the anterior are the sharp ends of the clavicles, and the others are pro- 

 cesses from the pubic bones. A specimen dissected had the ovaries 

 much enlarged, the ova being of an inch in diameter. 

 Length of largest specimen, 5| inches. 



Localities : Off False Point, in 10 fathoms : 28 miles S. W. of Puri, 

 in 25 fathoms : 5 miles south of Ganjam, in 25 fathoms. 



Champsodon voeax. 



Giintlier, Proo. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 102; aud Zool. Challenger, vol. i, pt. W, 

 pp. 52, 43, and 56, pi. xxiii, fig. A, aud vol. sxii, p. 49. 



Our specimens all have the radial formula D. 5/21, A. 19. There is 

 a pair of sharp diverging spines on each pre-orbital margin, and a 

 similar pair on the lower border of the preoperculum. Two parallel 

 ridges pass from the snout, above each eye, to the occiput, where they 

 diverge to terminate in a sharp bifid spine on the tympanic region. 

 There are transverse rows of small milk-white (in spirit) papillas on the 

 head and body. Diameter of scales inch, the free edge with four or 

 five sharp teeth about two-thirds the diameter of the scale in length. 

 Colours in life :— dorsum metallic green ; belly silvery : spinous dorsal 

 black : caudal with a dark base and black edge. 



Total length of the largest specimen 5 inches. 



Localities : 16 miles E. of mouth of Devi river in the Mahauaddi 

 delta, in 68 fathoms : [Bay of Bengal, Lat. 20° 18' N. Long 90" 

 50' E., in 65 fathoms, bottom temperature 65° Pahr. : 40 miles S. W. 

 Akyab, in 100 fathoms, bottom temperature 62° Pahr.]. In the ' Investi- 

 gator ' collection from the Malabar coast is a single specimen an inch and 

 a half long, taken in 28 fathoms. 



Family Pedicxilati. 

 Specimens of a small Lophius were taken on one occasion in a 

 moderate depth. It bears a close resemblance to L. setigerus (Wahl), 

 but I am unable to identify it with the descriptions of that fish, and 

 propose to regard it as a distinct species. 



LOPHIDS INDICDS, sp. n. 

 D. 3/3/8. A.6-7. C. 8. P. 23. V. 5. 

 Cephalic disk enormous ; half the total length, including caudal ; 

 its vertex studded with spinous tubercles, and its margin completely 

 fringed with skinny appendages which are continued along the middle 



