of the Bay of Bengal. 
201 
Brephostoma, Alcock. 
2. Brephostoma Carpenteri. (PI. IX. fig. 4.) 
Brephostoma Carpenteri , Alcock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Nov. 18 9, 
p. 388. 
More careful examination of this fish, now that it has been 
delineated, leads me to the conclusion that instead of being 
related to the Trachinidse it has close affinities with Poma - 
tomus , Bisso ; and I take this opportunity of placing it in 
what I believe to be its proper natural position in the group 
Apogonina. 
If this position be conceded, the following diagnosis of the 
genus should be sufficient : — 
Head-bones and opercles unarmed; preoperculum with a 
double edge. Mouth edentulous. Eyes large. Two separate 
dorsal fins, the first with five spines. Anal fin with one 
spine and similar to second dorsal. Scales large, adherent, 
ctenoid. Seven branchiostegals. Pyloric casca in moderate 
number. No air-bladder. 
Parascombrops, Alcock. 
3. Parascombrops pellucidus, Alcock. 
Parascombrops pellucidus , Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. lviii. pt. ii. 
pp. 296, 297, pi. xxii. fig. 1. 
About one hundred specimens were taken at Station 96 
(98-102 fathoms), none of them being more than 4 inches 
long; many were mature females. The, facies of this fish (of 
which one specimen had previously been found in 68 and one 
in 65 fathoms) decidedly inclines to the bathybial. 
Family Berycidae. 
Melamphaes, Gunther. 
4. Melamphaes mizolepis ) Gthr. 
Melamphaes mizolepis , Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, vol. ii. 
p. 185 ; and Zool. Chall. Exp. vol. xxii. p. 28. 
A mutilated specimen, which corresponds in almost every 
verifiable particular with the diagnosis of this species, was 
dredged at Station 97, in 1310 fathoms. The radial formula 
of our specimen is D. y r , A. J, V. ^_ ?7 . 
A single scale was found still adherent to the thorax ; it 
