12. CLINTTS. 2G9 



the Cllnus acuminatus of Valenciennes. Three specimens from 

 Gronow's Collection have the anterior dorsal rays elevated : whether 

 the fourth is the type of B. ignobilis is not certain. 



15. Clinus acuminatus. 

 Cuv. 8f Vol xi. p. 370. 



D.f. A.|. V.1/2. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a half in the 

 total length, the length of the head four times. The snout is sub- 

 conical, and equal in length to the diameter of the eye ; the inter- 

 orbital space is narrow and convex. A very short tentacle above the 

 posterior part of the orbit. Scales exceedingly small, those of the 

 anterior portion of the lateral line larger. The anterior dorsal spines 

 nearly equidistant from one another and shorter than the succeechug ; 

 the soft portion is a little more elevated than the spinous, and not 

 united with the caudal. Brown : two oblique band-like dark spots 

 from the eye to the angle of the praeoperculum. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



a. Cape Seas. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



16. Clinus capensis. 



Cirrhibarbis capensis, Cuv. .$• r«/. xi. p. 40G. pi. 337. 

 B. 6. D. f . A. |. V. 3. 



Chin with eight barbels ; a pair of branched tentacles above the 

 snout, and a small single one above the orbit. Dorsal fin without a 

 detached portion and with the soft rays not branched. Teeth on the 

 vomer, none on the palatine bones ; scales very small. 



Cape of Good Hope, 



a. Adult : stuffed. 



17. Clinus cottoides. 



Cuv. <5- Val. xi. p. 367. 



D. ^-^\ A. |. V. 1/2. Vert. 16/30. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a half in the 

 total length, and equals the length of the head. The snout is short 

 and rounded, with the jaws equal in length. Palatine teeth none, 

 those of the vomer in a curved band. The width of the interorbital 

 space is equal to, or somewhat less than, the diameter of the eye. 

 A broad fringed tentacle, shorter than the eye, above the orbit ; a 

 transvei'se groove behind the orbits. Scales exceecUngly small ; those 

 of the lateral line larger, square. The dorsal fin continuous, an- 

 teriorly low, postcrioiiy becoming gradually higher ; spines stout, 

 the two or three anterior equal in length to the diameter of the eye. 

 Dorsal not united mth the caudal. Yellowish-brown, marbled with 

 darker ; sometimes six brown vertical bands, extending on the dorsal 



