206 Mr. A. Alcock on the Bathybial Fishes 
(a mature female with gravid ovaries) contained seven 
entire individuals of Scopelus pterotus besides much debris ; 
intestine longer than the entire body, coiled, with nine pyloric 
appendages ; no air-bladder. 
Colours in life Dorsum dirty greenish yellow, marbled 
with lighter shades, venter silvery white, first dorsal black. 
Total length of mature specimens 5§ inches. About 
twenty-five specimens. 
Hob . Vide Station 96. 
Family Pediculati. 
Halieut^a, C. & V. 
8. Halieutcea stellata (Wahl). 
( Vide Gunther, Catalogue, iii. pp. 203, 204.) 
One small specimen from Station 96 (98-102 fathoms). 
The skin is smoother and the dermal spines less robust 
than in shallow-w T ater specimens, while the mouth is slightly 
smaller and the eye rather larger ; the last character may 
either be due to immaturity or may be a reaction to depth. 
A second small Pediculate from 1260 fathoms remains 
outside the area of incidence of any hitherto defined genus. 
It is closest to Oneirodes , Liitken, and Melanocetus , Giinther. 
It is with some diffidence that I propose to establish a new 
genus for the reception of a single small specimen ; but there 
seems to be no other course. 
Paroneirodes, gen. nov. ? 
Differs from Oneirodes , Liitken, in possessing a second 
cephalic instead of a true dorsal spine. 
9. Paroneirodes glomerosus , sp. n. (PI. IX. fig. 6.) 
D. 1/1/6. A. 4. C. 8. 
When captured the form of the body was ovoid, though 
unstable ; hardened in spirit it becomes compressed and oval. 
The length of the head is five eighths, its greatest height 
nine sixteenths of the total, without the caudal. The eye is 
rudimentary, being deeply buried beneath a circular patch of 
transparent (unpigmented) skin ; above the eye is a promi- 
nent, coarse, procumbent spine. Mouth moderately large, its 
