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from the Bay of Bengal. 
left a well-marked groove which recurves across the cheek ; 
interocular space narrowest in the middle, where its width is 
barely f the vertical diameter of the eye ; occupied by nume- 
rous longitudinal serrated crests, with deep furrows inter- 
vening. Nostrils tubular. 
Mouth broad ; the maxilla does not reach the vertical 
through the middle of the orbit. Villiform teeth in the jaws 
and in a narrow band on the bevelled edge of the vomer. 
Gill-openings moderately wide ; gill-membranes united to 
the isthmus ; fourth gill-cleft a small foramen. Integument 
thick, investing all the fins except the caudal. All the fin- 
rays simple. 
Dorsal fins separated by a deep notch ; the spinous portion 
is very irregular ; the first spine is very small, the second 
and third, which are of nearly equal length — not quite half 
that of the head — are isolated from each other and from the 
rest of the fin ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth, which are of 
nearly equal length inter se — almost half that of the head — 
form an isolated group ; the next four, which are short and 
weak, form another isolated group ; the spine of the second 
dorsal fin is more than half the length of the head and longer 
than the soft rays. Caudal truncated. Pectoral nearly as 
long as the head ; its appendage, which is very thick and 
rigid, reaches to the second anal ray. Ventral adherent to 
the abdomen through the greater part of its extent, reaching 
to the vent. 
Colours in life : — Crown and nape deep brown, throat 
milk-white, body and fins deep crimson, becoming very dark 
at the margins of the spinous dorsal, anal, and paired fins ; 
inner surface of pectorals dark brown, with broad canary- 
yellow lines forming a hexagonal pattern. The crimson is 
dissolved out in spirit. 
Air-bladder small. Two pyloric appendages. 
Length 4*25 inches. 
Off Ganjam coast, 28 to 30 fathoms ; bottom sand and 
shells. 
Family Cottidse. 
Lepidotkigla, Gthr. 
Lepidotrigla spiloptera , Gthr. 
Lepidotrigla siriloptera , Gunther, Zool. Chall. Exp. vol. i. pt. vi. p. 42. 
pi. xviii. fig. C. 
Var. nov. longipinnis . 
One specimen, answering in every respect, even in the 
