BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 43 



Posterior portion of the adhesive disks without free anterior 

 margin. Distinct incisors in the lower jaw ; those of the upper jaw 

 are in several series, and the interior ones sometimes compressed. 

 Gills three, pseudobranchiaB rudimentary ; gill-membranes united 

 under the throat, and not attached to the isthmus. 

 West Coast of South America, &c. 



1130. Gobiesox cardinalis. Eamsay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales. Vol. VII., p. 148. 

 Tasmania. 



Family. TRACHYPTERD^. 



Genus. Trachyterus. Gouan. 



Body elongate, strongly compressed, naked ; eye lateral ; mouth 

 small, dentition feeble. One dorsal fin occupying the whole back, 

 with a detached anterior portion, composed of flexible rays. 

 Ventrals thoracic, well developed, composed of several more or less 

 branded rays. Gill-opening wide ; pyloric appendages in very 

 great number. Vertebrae numerous. Bones soft, muscles little 

 coherent. 



Coasts of Europe. Pacific Ocean South. 



1231. Trachypterus altivelis. Kner. 



Gunth. Cat. Ill, p. 303. 



B. 6. D. 7/190. A. 0. C. 6/4-6. P. II. V. 7. 



" The greatest height of the body is above the ventral fins, equal 

 to the length of the head, and one seventh of the total. Form of 

 the head as in T. tcenia. Eight teeth in the upper and six in the 

 lower jaw. The anterior dorsal rays elevated ; the longest of the 

 second dorsal fin are not much lower than the body ; dorsal rays 

 rough, with a small spine at the base of each, Form of caudal fin 

 and tubercles as in T. tcenia. Silvery, with three large round 

 black spots below the dorsal fin ; a fourth near the abdominal 

 edge, a little behind the first on the back." 



A specimen taken at Spring Bay, East Coast of Tasmania, and 

 now in the Museum, Hobart. (Johnston.) 



