23. HARPAGIFEE. 263 



8. Notothenia macrocephalus. 

 D. 5 I 30-31. A. 21. L. lat. 58. 



The upper surface of the head broad and flat ; the width of the 

 interorbital space is contained twice and three-fourths in the length 

 of the head. Lateral line interrupted below the third dorsal ray 

 before the last. 



Falkland Islands. 



a. Fourteen inches long : stuffed. Falkland Islands. Purchased of 

 Mr. Jamrach. 



9. Notothenia rossii. 

 Notothenia (?) rossii, Richards. I. c. p. 9. pi. 5. f. 1, 2. 

 D.7|f,. A.±. L. lat. 62. 



The spines of the fins not flexible and veiy short. The length of 

 the head is one-fourth of the total. (Rich.) 

 Hab. ? 



23. HARPAGIFER. 



Harpagifer, Richards. Voy. Ervb. Sf Terr. Fishes, p. 11. 



Habit cottoid. Scales none; lateral line not continued to the 

 caudal. Two dorsals, the iirst with three or four flexible spines ; 

 ventrals jugular ; the lower pectoral rays branched. In both the 

 jaws viHiform teeth ; jjalate smooth. Operculum and suboperculum 

 with very long spines. Six branchiostegals ; the gill-membranes 

 attached to the isthmus between ; pseudobranchiae. Air-bladder 

 none ; pyloric appendages in small nimiber. 



Coasts of Cape Horn and of the Falkland Islands. — Antipodes of 

 Coitus. 



1. Harpagifer bispinis. 



Callionymus bispinis, Forsfer. 



Batrachus bispinis, Rl. Sclui. p. 45. 



Hai-pagifer bispinis, Richards. I. c. p. 11. pi. 7. f. 1-3, p. 19. pi. 12. 



f. 8, 9. 

 palliolatiis, Richards. I. c. p. 20. pi. 12. f. ,5-7. 



D. 3-4 I 24. A. 18. Ccec. pylor. 3. Vert. 11/18. 



Operculum with a very long antler-Hke spine above, directed up- 

 wards ; suboperculum with a smaller spine directed backwards. 

 Male with tentacles above the eye, and with the margin of the prae- 

 operculum fi'inged. Reddish-olive, with very large brown blotches, 

 more or less confluent. 



Cape Horn ; Falkland Islands. 



a-r/. Fine specimens. Falkland Islands. Presented^ 

 by W. E. Wright. Esq. I 



h. Fine specimen. Falkland Islands. Presented by iTjqjes of the 

 W. E. Wright, Esq. f species. 



/. Adult male. Falkland Islands. Presented by 

 W. E. Wright, Esq. 



