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Call, latemlis (id.) Apertura brancliiarum lateral! sub apiculis birds oper- 

 culi brevissimis ; corpore teretiusculo quam capite crassiorc ; capite parvo, 

 parce depresso, vix latiore quam alto ; colore supra spadiceo, fasciis trans- 

 versis brevibus, badiis, variisque ; in medio latere maculis duabus fuscis 

 albo indentatis ; infraque medio guttis albis arete ordiuatis. D. 4, 8 ; A. 7. 

 Pacific. 



lu the Amials (vol. xiv, p. 280) Richardson gives the characters of a new 

 genus, Patcecus, which appears to belong to the Bleiinioidei. It is very 

 much compressed, has very small teeth [microscopic!] in both maxillae, 

 [arid pharyngeal bones], none on the palate [tongue, or vomer], no scales, no 

 ventral fins, the pectorals affixed very low down, the dorsal fin extends 

 from the forehead as far as the caudal fin [with which it is united], anal fin 

 distinct from the latter. P.fnnto, from South Australia. 



The same naturalist (ib. xiii, p. 401) has instituted a genus, Channicthys, 

 which was found by Sir James C. Ross, near Kerguelen's Land. Teeth 

 crowded, short, curved, none on the palate, body roundish, with a gradually 

 attenuated tail, without scales, lateral line armed with rough scales. 

 Ventral fins in front of the pectorals. Ch. rhinocemtus, B. 6 ; D. 8, 35 ; 

 A. 31. 



Gol'ms Nilssoni v. Diiben (1. c.), dorsal fins wide apart. D. 2, 20 ; A. 20. 

 G. Stuvitxii, id. ib. D. 5, 12. 



ChceturichtJiys, Richardson, nov. gen., Voyage of Sulphur. Corpus elon- 

 gatum, antice teretiusculum in caput subtetragonum seusim proclivc, et 

 postice in caudam compressam attenuatum. Oculi modici, sublaterales. 

 Os largum terminale. Deutes mandibularum ordine bino, exteriores majores 

 pauciores, curvato-subulati et in maxilla inferiore patuli, iuteriores arcti, 

 vix couspicui. Vomer et palatum laevia. Maxilla inferior subtus barba- 

 tulata. Cranium, gense striatse, operculaque inermia, squamosa. Tempora 

 sulcata. Apertura branchiah's ampla, membraua quinqueradiata, opercu- 

 lata, Pinnae dorsales ambae, pectorales et ventrales Gobiorum. Pinna 

 caudae lanceolata, utrinque .in cauda decurrente et ibi radiis plurimis inar- 

 ticulatis simplicibusque susteutata. Papilla geuitalis simplex. One species, 

 Ch. stigmat ias. South Sea. 



Lepadogaster Webbeanus, Val. Canar. D. 16 ; A. 9 ; reddish. 



Lophius eurypterus, v. Diiben and Koreu (I.e.) Radio capitali primo 

 sequentibus duobus plus quam duplo breviore, tcnninato in cyliudrum 

 trausversum, crassum, ciliatum ; pinnis omnibus amplis ; pectoralibus exten- 

 sis aream corporis aequantibus. 



Chironectes arcticm (id. ib.) Lsevissimus, radiis piuuarum pectoralium et 

 caudae indivisis, hac longitudini piunaa dorsalis sequante; appendicibus 

 cutaneis raris, sparsis, validis, sub cylindricis ; basi vaginatis, et corpore 

 arete adpressis, apice pinnatis. 



Batrachus margaritatm, Richardson, Voyage of Sulphur. Esquamosus 



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