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as broad as diameter of eye. There is a series of 8 to 1 1 irregular 

 teeth in upper and lower jaws. Scales small. Colour uniformly 

 dark brown. Not common. (Johnston.) 



Tasmania . 



Genus. Physiculus. Kaup. 



Body elongate, covered with small scales. A separate caudal ; 

 two dorsal fins and one anal • ventral fins with a very narrow but 

 flat base, composed of several rays. Teeth in the jaws in a band, 

 small, villiform, of equal size ; vomerine or palatine teeth none. 

 Chin with a barbel. Branchiostegals seven ; gill-rakers of the 

 outer branchial arch short. 



Madeira. 



1244. Physiculus palmatus. Klunz. 



Archiv. fur Naturg., XXXVIIL, 1872. 



R. br. 7. D. 9/56. A. c. 50. L. lat. c. 120. L. br. c. 15/30. 



Height of body and length of head 4J in the length. Elongate, 

 elliptic ; profile of head slightly parabolic, point of snout notched, 

 forehead and preeorbital scaly ; under jaw retreating ; a pointed 

 barbel on the chin about as long as the eye ; the maxillary 

 reaches beyond the hind margin of the eye. There is a broad 

 band of villiform teeth in both jaws, none on the vomer and 

 palate. The 1st dorsal fin commences immediately behind the 

 base of the pectoral, the 2nd dorsal opposite the anal ; the cauda} 

 is quite separate and rounded. The ventrals are about half the 

 size of the head, with the base narrow, but flat and not styliform. 

 Colour brownish, dorsal anal and caudal fins brown-margined. 

 Length, 50 Ctm. 



Port Phillip. (Klunz.) 



1245. Pseudophycis breviusculus. Richards. 

 Ramsay Proc. Linn. Soc., N. S. Wales, Vol. VI., p. 717. 

 Port Jackson. 



Family. MACRURID^E. 



1246. Coryph^enoides Tasmanle. Johnston. 

 Proc. Royal Soc. Tasman., 1882, p. 143. 

 B. 7. D. 15/103. A. 90. V. 8. 



