428 Mr. A. Alcock on undescribed Shore-Fishes 
Encepholoides *, a large Oxystome crab near Philyra ; a deli- 
cate mussel, the carnivorous Gastropod Mollusk Rostellaria ; 
and the fishes Parascombrops pellucidus and Scianectes . In 
the class of fishes, indeed, almost everything appears to be 
new, and everything is interesting. Here have been found a 
species of Centropristis and a species of Prionotus , both being 
types not hitherto regarded as Indian. The occurrence of 
Trigla hemisticta must also be noticed. 
It is unfoitunate that for this zone too we have no con- 
tinuous temperature readings ; but, so far as occasional 
experiments go, the temperature at the bottom appears to be 
from 15° to l(i° Fahr. lower than the temperature at the 
surface. 
The new fishes from this zone have been described in 
previous papers. 
§2. Descriptions of New Species . 
Acanthopterygii. 
Family Scorpsenidse. 
Minous, C. & Y. 
Minous coccineus , sp. n. 
D. 10/tV. A. 12. 
Head broad, its length about 3f in the total. Body com- 
pressed, its height just over £ of the same. The bones of the 
head strong, massive, rugose, u carious ” in appearance ; 
pragorbital with two strong spines, of which the posterior is 
recurved and much the longer ; the infraorbital ring forms a 
broad, massive, salient buttress, ridged and furrowed, but not 
spiny ; preoperculum with a strong sharp spine at its angle 
and two smaller coarse ones below ; interoperculum serru- 
lated ; operculum small, with two diverging weak stays ; a 
deep crescentic “ carious ” excavation across the occiput ; 
occipital and temporal spines strong, coarsely serrated. 
Snout truncated ; its breadth is greater than its length, 
which is less than that of the eye ; lower jaw the more 
prominent, each limb with tw r o or three barbels. Eyes deep- 
set, their major diameter one third of the head-length ; 
a short bioad tentacle above the pupil ; supraorbital margin 
coarsely crenulated; infraorbital margin thin, sharp, very 
salient, incomplete behind and also in front, where there is 
* Encephaloides Armstrongi , Wood-Mason, MS. 
