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Hippoglossus Ki>/ffii, Jenyus, Beagle. Eyes sinistr., lateral line arched in 

 front. I). 18. 48 ; A. 51 ; P. 11 ; V. 6. Valparaiso. 



Rliombits lentiginosus, Richardson. (Annals, xi, p. '495.) Eyes sinistr., ellip- 

 tical, caudal fin rhomboid ; ventral fins separate from each other, and from 

 the anal fin; scales ciliated (at the apex). D. 73 ; A. 59. Port Essingtou. 



Solea liturata, Richardson. (Transact. Zool. Soc. of London.) " Corpore 

 lituris exiguis geminatis, sparse sed irreguiariter variegato ; pinna veutrali 

 dextra cum anali conjuncta ; pinna caudse soluta. Australia. 6 inch. 



ANGUILLID.E. Murcpna lentiginosa, Jeuyns (1. c.) Red-brown, with small, 

 yellow circular spots ; 20J inch. Galapagos Islands. Besides this the author 

 describes two species of this genus, without specific names ; one from the 

 Cape de Verd Islands, the other from Tahiti. 



Conger punctus, Jeuyns, with red-brown transverse bauds, and narrow, 

 gray interspaces ; numerous minute points on the skiu ; 3 inch. 3 lines. 

 Tierra del Fuego. 



OPHIDDXE. Richardson describes (Annals, xii, p. 175) a Fish from Port 

 Essington, New Holland, as a new genus, which he places near Ophidium, 

 under the name of Macheerium. He places the genera Ophidiiim, Machetes, 

 Echiodon, and Fierasfer, as a distinct family, near the Gadidse, in which he 

 would also include the Blennidse. 



The genus MacJieerium, is characterized as follows : Piscis malacopterygius, 

 npodus, eusiformis, squamosus. Apertura brauchialis satis magna sub gula 

 extensa. Radii membr. branch, sex. Opercula conspicua. Os modice ex- 

 tensivnm. Dentes parvi, uniserialcs in ossibus iutermaxillaribus et in maxilla 

 inferiore, qua; rictum efficiunt, ordinati. Geuse et regioues supra scapulares 

 squamosce. Pinnae verticales coalitse., radiis spinosis nullis. Pinna dorsi 

 per totum fere dorsum regnans. Linea lateralis brevis super anum desincus. 

 M. svMucens, B. 6 ; D. 70 ; A. 59 ; P. 20 ; V. 0. 



De Kay describes a Fish as a new species of Ammodytes, A. vittafux, 

 which has seven spinous processes in front of the dorsal fin ; maxillary teeth 

 are wanting, and on the vomer are two bony processes, which can hardly be 

 regarded as teeth ; no swimming bladder. This Fish appears necessarily to 

 form a distinct genus of Scombrida?, near Lepidop/'.s. It has a broad silvery 

 streak on the sides. D. 7. 54; P. 15 ; A. 28. 



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Syngnathus viridcscens, De Kay. Dusky olive-green above, yellowish be- 

 neath ; 7 inch. D. 40 ; P. 14 ; A. 3. S. adcularis, Jeuyns. Yellow-brown, 

 rather more compressed than S. Acus ; above forty rays in the dorsal fin, one 

 or two in the anal, pectorals very small ; 6 inch. Valparaiso. S. 



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