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of the body is smooth, but the posterior portion is again similar 

 to the anterior. It is of a dark blue on the upper parts and 

 silvery below; the caudal fin is red and the eye yellow; the 

 muzzle black." (Castelnau). 



Cape Schank. Length three inches. 



Genus Geotria, Gray. 



Dorsal fins two, the posterior separate from the caudal fin. 

 Maxillary lamina with four sharp flat lobes ; a pair of long 

 pointed lingual teeth (like the horns of a young Antelope). 



Chili and Australia. 



1129. Geotria australis, Gray. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 1851, p. 238.— Gunth., Cat. Fishes VIII., p. 508. 



Skin on the throat very lax, forming a large pouch. The 

 maxillary lamina is thin, crescent-shaped, with four sharp teeth, 

 the middle pair of which are only half as broad as the outer. 

 Mandibulary lamina very low, slightly sinuous. Suctorial teeth 

 in numerous series, rather distant from one another, unicuspid ; 

 only those nearest to the mouth somewhat larger, the others small. 

 Only one transverse scries of very small teeth between the 

 mandibulary lamina and the posterior lip, which is beset with 

 numerous broad leaf-like fringes, as in the remainder of the 

 margins of the disk. Suctorial disk sub-triangular, with the 

 lateral lobes very broad. First and second dorsal fins rather 

 widely separated. Coloration uniform. 



South Australia. Length twenty inches. 



1130. Geotria chilensis, Gray. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes, YIIL, p. 509. 



Skin on the throat not dilated. The outer lobes of the maxillary 

 dental lamina are broad with a sharp convex edge, the inner 

 narrow and pointed. Mandibulary lamina crescent-shaped with 



