560 ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 



broad, depressed, flat, with a few very short tentacles at the angle 

 of the mouth ; orbital tentacles none. The maxillary extends to 

 below the posterior margin of the orbit. No foramen in the axil. 

 Yellowish, with large irregular blackish-brown cross-bands ; fins 

 with spots of the same colour. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



a. Adult. Cape Sea. Presented by the Officers of the Army Medical 

 Department at Fort Pitt. 



Pages 178 and 182. BRACHIONICHTHYS. 

 In the diagnosis read : — " and sometimes with the soft dorsal." 



Page 182. Brachionichthys hirsutus. 

 a. Fine specimen. Tasmania. Presented by Dr. A. Giinther. 



Page 199. Antennarius bigibbus, 

 c. Adult. Presented by the Officers of the Army Medical Depart- 

 ment at Fort Pitt. 



Page 203. Halieutsea stellata. 

 Add to the synonymy : — 

 Sleek. Verhand. Acad. Wete?isch. Amsterd. i., Japan, p. 10. 

 Dr. V. Bleeker has dissected this fish : — air-bladder and pyloric 

 appendages absent ; intestinal tract much longer than the fish, con- 

 taining remainders of shells. 



Page 207. Add to the Synojjsis of the Genera : — 

 Ventral fins. Scales large. Barbel none .. . 16. Dacttloscopus, p. 279. 



Ventral fins. Scales large. A short com- 

 pressed barbel 16«. Myxodagnus, p. 563. 



Ventral fins none. Scales small ; lateral line 

 none. Anal spinenone. Gill-membranes 



" bj an istlunus 21 «. Anoplaechus, p. 564. 



Page 212. 



6. Blennius multifihs, Girard, is to be erased from the list of 

 doubtful species. 



Page 215. Blennius tentacularis. 



Add to the synonymy : — 

 Blennius auritus, Kessler, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1859, 2. p. 227. 

 Kessler has obsei-ved that the number of teeth varies according to 

 the size of the specimens. 



