4U4 GOBIESOCID.E. 



lines. 



Length of the first vertebra 1 1 



Width of the first vertebra '. . . . 5 



Length of the second vertebra 2 



of the seventh vertebra 2\ 



of the fifteenth vertebra 2 



of the twenty-seventh vertebra 1^ 



of the abdominal portion 27^ 



of the caudal portion 25| 



2. SICYASES. 



Sicyases, Miill fy Trosch. Wicc/m. Arch. 1843, p. 298. 

 Tomicodon, pt., Barnev. Rev. Zuol. 184G, p. 144. 



Anterior part of the body very broad and depressed ; skin leathery. 

 Dorsal fin short, situated on the tail ; ventrals widely a2:)art from each 

 other, composed of a rudimentary spine and four (five) rays; posterior 

 portion of the adhesive disk without free anterior margin. Jaws 

 with a single series of teeth, the anterior of which are compressed 

 and cutting. Gills three ; pseudobranchite rudimentary ; branchio- 

 stegals five ; giU-membranes united under the throat, and not attached 

 to the isthmus. 



Coast of Chile. Puerto Cabello. 



1. Sicyases sanguineus. 



Sicyases sanguineus, 3Iilll. Sf Trosch. Wiegm. Arch. 1843, p. 298, and 



Hor. Ichthyol. iii. p. 19. taf. 3. fig. 1. 

 Gobiesox brevirostris, Guichen. in Gay, I. c. p. 335. lam. 9. fig. 1. 



B. 5. D. 10. A. 7. C. 8. 

 Red. 



Coasts of Chile. 



a, b. Fine specimens. Valparaiso. 



c. Large specimen : skeleton. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



The head and the anterior part of the body are very broad and 

 much depressed ; the skin is naked, thick, leathery, rugose, with 

 vertical folds on the side of the body. The head is as broad as long, 

 with the lateral profiles convergent towards the snout, which is 

 obtuse. The upper siu-face of the head is quite flat, and the width 

 of the interorbital space is one-half of the greatest width of the head. 

 The cleft of the mouth is horizontal, curved, not extending to below 

 the eye : the lips are thick ; the lower is divided into three portions 

 by two deep grooves ; each of the lateral portions has a broad thin 

 appendage hanging downwards. The intermaxillary is verj^ little 

 protractile, and armed with eight or ten teeth, vertically implanted, 

 the two outer on each side being small and conical, whilst the others 

 are flat and cutting. There is a broad velum on the toothless palate. 



