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13. CH.ffiNICHTHYS. 



Chfenichtliys, Richards, Voy. Ereb. ^ Terr, Fishes, p. 12. 



Body rather elongate, sHghtly compressed ; head very large, with 

 the snout spatulifomi, and with the cleft of the mouth very wide, 

 and the lower jaw longest. Eye lateral. Scales none ; lateral line 

 with granulated plates. Two dorsals, the first with seven spines ; 

 ventrals jugidar ; the lower pectoral rays branched. In both the jaws 

 cardiform teeth ; palate smooth. Opercles armed. Six branchio- 

 stegals ; gill-membrane joined to the isthmus underneath ; pseudo- 

 branchiae. Air-bladder none ; pyloric appendages in small number. 



Kerguelen's Land. 



1. Chseniclithys rhinoceratus. 



Richards. I. c. p. 13. pi. 6. f. 1-3 (ventrals too short). 

 D. 7 I 34-35. A. 33, C«c. pylor. 2. 



Snout with a hook-like spine in front ; operculum with four or 

 five spines, radiating fi-om a common centre ; the second and third 

 dorsal spines very slender and elongate, more than one-half the 

 length of the head. Lateral line with a series of granulated scales ; 

 beneath it, along the middle of the side of the tail, a series of round, 

 bony, granulated plates. 



Kerguelen's Land. 



a. Adult. Kerguelen's Land. Presented by the Lords of the Ad- 



miralty. — Type of the species. 



b. Adult: stuflfed. 



14. BOVICHTHYS. 



Bovichtus (!), C'uv. ^ Val viii. p. 48G. 



General aspect cottoid ; posterior portion of the body compressed ; 

 cleft of the mouth horizontal, with the upper jaw rather longer ; eye 

 lateral, more or less directed upwards. Scales none. Two separate 

 dorsals, the first with eight spines ; ventrals jugular; the lower pec- 

 toral rays simple. ViEiform teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and 

 the palatine bones, without canines. Operculum with a strong spine ; 

 praeorbital and prseoperculum not armed. Seven branchiostegals. 



South Pacific ; Antarctic Ocean. 



1. Bovichthys diacanthus. 



Callionymus diacanthus, Cai-mich. Trans. Linn, Sue. xii. p. 501. pi. 26. 

 Bovichtus diacanthus, Cta\ 8f Val. viii. p. 487. pi. 244 ; Gay, Hist. 

 Chil. Zool. ii. p. 171. 



D. 8 I 20. A. 14. 



The soft dorsal higher than the body beneath ; the length of the 

 base of the sjiinous dorsal is less than one-half uf that of the soft ; 

 eyes shghtly directed upwards ; the width of the interorbital space 



