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Show 1889.] FISHES FROM MUSCAT. 241 ANACANTHINI. OPHIDIID^E. 45. B R O T U L A MULTIBARBATA, Schleg. B. ensiformis, Gthr., and B. maculata, Day, do not seem to me to differ specifically from B. multibarbata. PHYSOSTOMI. SCOPELID<E. 46. SUDIS JAYAKARI, sp. n. A single specimen, 6 inches long, of the deep-sea genus Sudis forms part of Mr. Jayakar's third collection. Although in too poor a condition to allow of a detailed description, especially with regard to the fin-rays, it is yet sufficiently distinct from the previously described species, S. hyalina, Bp., from the Mediterranean, and S. ringens, Jord. & Gilb., from the coast of California, to justify the establishment of a new name. Head of Sudis jayakari, enlarged. The mouth does not extend to below the eye, and its length is twice and one third in that of the head. About 70 minute teeth in each maxillary ; four, posterior largest, in each praemaxillary. Mandible with 12 teeth on each side, two of which are minute; the anteriormost and the three posterior of the inner row very large and fang-like. Six large, fang-like, palatine teeth on each side. Dorsal halfway between the head and the caudal, a short distance behind the ventrals, which are halfway between the mouth and the caudal fin. D.? A. 30. L.l. 63. Total length (without caudal) 150 millim. ; length of head 37; depth of body 10 ; diameter of the eye 7; prseorbital length of the head 17 ; postorbital length of the head 13. SCOMBRESOCID^E. 47- BELONE MELANOSTIGMA, C. & V. 48. BELONE APPENDICULATA, Klunz. |