TELEOSTEI. 
Pisces 33 
thick, armed on the opercles with strong spines ; body compressed. 
Snout broad, not overhanging the large mouth. Eyes, none. No barbel. 
Yilliform teeth in the jaws, vomer, and palate. Gill-membranes rather 
broadly united ; four gills ; eight branchiostegals ; no pseudobranchige. 
Small deciduous scales on body and head ; lateral lines indistinguishable. 
Vertical fins confluent ; pectorals entire ; ventrals widely separated, each 
consisting of two filaments. Id. t. c. p. 212. T. hextii, n. sp., id. t. c. 
p. 213, pi. viii, fig. 1, off Madras coast, 1310 fath. 
Halosauridj:. 
T. Gill, Am. Nat. xxiii, p. 1015 (1890), proposes to raise this family 
to the rank of an order, under the name of Lyopomi. 
Halosaurus hosJcynii, n. sp., Alcock, Ann. N. H. (6) vi, p. 309, Arabian 
Sea, 1000 fath. 
MuR*ENID.E. 
Gill, T. The Osteological Characters of the Family Anguillidcc. P. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, pp. 157-160. 
. The Osteological Characters of the Family Synaphobranchidcc. 
T. c. pp. 161-164. 
. The Osteological Characters of the Family Muramidce. T. c. pp. 
165-170. 
. Osteological Characteristics of the Family Murcenesocidce. T. c. 
pp. 231-234. 
. The Osteological Characteristics of the Family Simenchelyidce . 
T. c. pp. 239-242. 
Neoconger vei'miformis, n. sp., Gilbert, P. U. S. Nat. Mus* xiii, p. 57, 
Pacific coast of N. America. 
Ophichthys nothochir , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 58, Pacific coast of N. America. 
Labichthys gilli f n, sp., Bean, t. c. p. 45, Alaska, 
v Bathymyrus, n. g. Branchial openiugs in the pharynx wide slits ; tail 1 
longer than the trunk ; heart situated immediately behind the gills ; 
muscular and osseous systems well-developed; gill openings separated by 
an interspace ; nostrils labial ; tongue not entirely free ; end of tail sur- 
rounded by the fin, pectorals well-developed ; dorsal fin commencing 
immediately behind the gill-opening ; teeth in the jaws uniserial ; inter- 
maxillary forming the end of the snout. B. echinorhynchus , n. sp., 
Alcock, J. A. S. B. lviii, p. 305, pi. xxii, fig. 6, Bay of Bengal. 
^ Promyllantor, n. g., allied to Congromurcena. Body stout, with the' 
muscular and osseous systems well developed. Tail about as along as the 
trunk. Muciferous cavities of the head well developed. Eye rather' 
small. Cleft of the mouth narrow, not extending behind the middle of 
the eye. Villiform teeth, in broad bands in the jaws and in a broad con- 
fluent patch on the palate* Tongue free. Nostrils lateral. Gill-openings 
