440 Mr. A. Alcock on undescribed Shore-Fishes 
separated by a very narrow scaly space ; the upper nearly 
half its length in advance of the lower. 
The anterior nostril of both sides is a slender tube ; the 
one on the coloured side, which is the longer, measuring a 
diameter of the eye. 
Mouth curved, to form a blunt truncated rostral hook, 
which does not reach halfway to the vertical from the ante- 
rior limit of the upper eye ; its angle extends well behind the 
vertical from the middle of the lower eye. Villiform teeth 
on the blind side only. Mid mento-jugular line fringed with 
ciliiform barbules. 
Gill-openings narrow ; the branch iostegal rays and mem- 
brane project beyond the opercular margin. Scales uniformly 
small, strongly ctenoid on both sides. Lateral line straight, 
ending on the coloured side an eye-length behind the upper 
orbit. 
The dorsal fin begins on the tip of the snout in the form of 
a few filiform rays, and extends, as does the anal, to the base 
of the caudal ; the highest rays are half the length of the 
caudal, which is 5f in the total; all the vertical fin-rays 
scaleless. No pectoral fins. Ventrals symmetrical, lateral, 
separated from the origin of the anal by a wide interval. 
Colours in life : — Body and fins on right side very dark 
olive, with some blackish flecks arranged in five cross series ; 
on the left side uniformly clouded with blue-black. 
Length 3*8 inches. 
Off Ganjam coast, 33 fathoms ; bottom sand. Off Viza- 
gapatam coast, 20 to 25 fathoms ; sand, mud. 
In spirit both sides dull blue-black, the left side being the 
lighter. 
SYNAPTUJRA, Cantor. 
Synaptura quagga (Kaup). 
AZsopia quagga, Kaup, in Wiegm. Archiv, 1858, p. 98. 
Synaptura quagga , Gunther, Cat. iv. p. 485. 
In the Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. lviii. pt. ii. p. 286, I 
erroneously stated that this species was to be found in 7 to 
10 fathoms on the east coast of India. This should have 
applied to S. zebra (Bloch). S. quagga (Kaup) has been 
taken by the c Investigator ’ only between 26 and 33 fathoms. 
