seale: new species of apodal fishes. 85 



teeth anteriorly, arranged in an irregular double row, plus a single 

 series of eight sharp graduated teeth on the shaft. Mandibular teeth 

 in a single series of about twenty-one conical, sharp, pointed teeth; 

 without large canines anteriorly. Snout 4.S in head; pointed, the 

 lower jaw the shorter, anterior nostril in a short wide tube situated 

 on upper lip on a line with tip of lower jaw; posterior nostril a wide 

 slit in the upper jaw, covered by a broad, rounded epidermal flap 

 on the upper side of the openings, which is located anterior to eye and 

 slightly nearer the eye than to the anterior nostril; eye is nearer angle 

 of jaws by almost a third than to the tip of the snout, its length is 

 2.1 in snout. The gill-openings are wide slits below the median line, 

 their length 1.5 in snout. They are slightly less than this distance 

 apart on their ventral margins; lateral line distinct, the pores rather 

 wide apart, about fifty-three between head and anal pore, several 

 distinct pores on sides of head, upper jaw, and snout; these pores 

 are not in white spots. 



The pectoral fins are small but well developed, their length slightly 

 greater than snout; dorsal and anal low but distinct, ending about 

 length of snout from tip of tail; origin of dorsal posterior to gill-open- 

 ings by a distance equal to head. 



Color in alcohol: — uniform seal-brown. 



Total length 495 m.; length to anal pore 192 m.; length of tail 

 303 m.; length of head 33 m.; length of origin of dorsal 63 m. 



Type — M. C. Z. 9200. Cape of Good Hope, July, 1860. L. Layard. 



Ophichthys itniserialis, sp. nov. 



Elongate cylinfirical; the head pointed, conical, the upper jaw 

 projecting; tail moderately compressed from the anal pore, and with 

 a short acute point in the vertical plane; depth of anal 3 in head; 

 length of head and trunk about equal to tail. 



Head, somewhat compressed, rounded, and pointed; greatest 

 width 1 .50 into its greatest depth, length 1 1 in total length and 4.5 

 in trunk. 



The mouth rather small, closing completely, the under jaw much 

 the shorter; the distance between tip of snout and angle of jaws 3.25 

 in head. Maxillary teeth uniserial, eighteen in number, conical and 

 pointed, of about equal size. Premaxillaries consisting of a clump 

 of three conical backward directed teeth on each side, near the tip 



