10. GENYPTERUS, 379 



6. Ophidium brevibarbe. 



Cui: Regne Anim. ; Cur. Reync Anim. III. Poiss. p. .32G; MiiU.Ahhandl. 

 Berl. Acad. 184:3, p. 153. pi. 4. fig. 4 (air-bladder); Kaup, Catal. 

 Apod. Fish. p. 154 pi. IG. fig. 1 (head). 



A short decurved spine on the point of the snout. Teeth strong ; 

 occiput and gill-cover scaly. Vertical fins edged with black. {Kaup.) 



Air-bladder oblong-ovate, without contracted portion and mth- 

 out posterior foramen ; no single anterior bone, replaced by a carti- 

 lage. {Man.) 



Brazils. 



10. GENYPTERUS. 



Xiphiurus *, Smith, III. Zool. South Africa. 

 Genypterus, Philippi in Wieffm. Arch. 1857, p. 268. 

 Hoplophycis, Kaup in Wiegm. Arch. 1858, p. 93. 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with minute scales. Eye of 

 moderate size. Vertical fins continuous ; ventral fins replaced by a 

 pair of bifid filaments (barbels) inserted below the glossohyal. 

 Teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones : the outer 

 series in the jaws and the single series of the palatines contain 

 strong teeth. Lower jaw received within the upper. Vent situated 

 at some distance behind the pectoral. Seven or eight branchiostegals ; 

 giU-openings wide; giUs four, a sht behind the fourth; pseudo- 

 branchiae and air-bladder present. Pyloric appendages in small 

 number (six). 



Coasts of South Africa. Temperate parts of the South Pacific. 



1. Genypterus capensis. 



Koning van Klipvisclien (Cape). 



Ophidium blacodes, pt., Forst. JDeser. Anim. p. 115 {Bl. Schn. p. 485). 

 Xiphiurus capensis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. Pise. c. tab. 

 Hoplophycis lalandii, Kaup in Wiegm. Arch. 1858, p. 93. 



B. 7-8. D. 156. A. 117. 



Barbels shorter than the head, bifid at their extremities. The 

 maxillary extends beyond the eye. Vent situated in, or before, the 

 middle of the length of the fish. Operculum terminating in a hori- 

 zontal spine. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



a-h. Thirty-nine inches long : stuffed. Cape. Presented by Sir A. 



Smith. — Types of the species. 

 c-d. Half-grown and young : stirffed. Cape. Presented by Sir A. 



Smith. 



2. Genypterus blacodes. 



Ophidium blacodes, pt. (from New Zoalnnd, and not from tiie Cape), 



Forst. Descr. Anim. ed. Lieht. p. 115 ; Bl. Schn. p. 484. 

 blacodes, Midi. Abhandl. Berl. Acad. 184^5, p. 153. 



* Preoccupied. 



