Descriptions of Fishes from the Coast of Natal. 77 



humeral spine; suprascapula with a strong granular ridge ending in 

 a blunt spine and with a small detached ridge between it and the 

 orbit ; 2 strong spines on supero-anterior angle of orbits ; maxillary 

 reaches scarcely to vertical of anterior margin of eye. 



Dorsal ix 15; first 3 spines tubercular ; 2nd spine longest, a little 

 more than | length of head and equal to the distance between 

 anterior nostril and posterior margin of eye. Pectorals 10 + 3, 

 a little longer than head, reaching to vertical from the 5th ray 

 of anal. Ventrals a little more than f head, reaching to anal. 

 Anal 15, situated below soft dorsal and of same length, but not so 

 high. Caudal emarginate, i length of head. Scales very small, 

 cycloid. Twenty-five spines along base of dorsal fin. Lat. 1. 65. 

 (The lateral line on the right side of this specimen bifurcates about 

 the middle of the caudal peduncle, one branch passing upwards 

 and backwards to the median line of the back at the caudal.) 



Colour (of preserved specimen), pale greyish brown, slightly 

 darker above than below, head with a reddish tinge ; pectorals 

 dark brown underneath on the upper portion and pale yellow on 

 the lower, with a few small ocellated spots ; caudal and ventrals 

 yellowish, dorsal whitish. 



One specimen, 204 mm. in length, procured by the Cape Govern- 

 ment trawler P. Faure (s.) off the Natal coast, in 48 fms. ; Cape 

 Natal W. by N. 6| miles. 



TBIGLA CAPENSIS, G. & V. 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv. p. 53, 1829. 



Teeth in villiform bands on jaws and vorner. Depth of body 5 to 

 5| times in total length excluding caudal, length of head 3~^ to 3^ 

 times. Snout elongate, upper profile straight, about twice diameter 

 of eye, which is 4 times in length of head and If to 1^ times 

 interorbital width, the space between the orbits concave ; preorbital 

 produced anteriorly and ending in about 4 prominent points or 

 spines, with a keel along the lower margin extending across pre- 

 operculum to the angle where it ends in 2 spines, one at the angle 

 and a shorter diverging one just below it, many radiations branch 

 upwards from a point about midway along this keel or ridge ; 

 operculum with a sharp strong spine ; suprascapula with a strong 

 spine and with a short detached ridge between it and the orbit ; 

 2 spines on supero-anterior angle of orbits; maxillary reaching 

 to vertical of anterior margin of eye. 



Dorsal ix 16 ; 1st spine smooth or slightly granular ; 2nd spine 



