Contents: Preface,On a new bathypelagic fish parascolopsis jonesi,Species specificity of tori longitudinales and valvula cerebelli in bony fishes,Biodata and list of publications,Biology and fishery of leiognathus jonesi James from the palk bay and gulf of mannar,Biodata and list of publications,Recent corals from the South-East coast of India,Biodata and list of publication,Demospongiae of the gulf of mannar and palk bay,A review of the present status of the prawn fishery of India,Decapod crustaceans from palk bay and gulf of mannar,Studies on the biology and fishery of the fishes of the genus chirocentrus,Studies on stomatopod crustacea from the seas around India,Zoogeography of shallow-water echinoderms of Indian seas.