198 KECOKDS OF TUE AUSTKALIAN MUSEUM. 



Head covered with lai'ge scales, the throat naked. Eye elevated, 

 touching its fellow on the upper profile of the head ; lower eyelid distinct. 

 Snout broad and rounded, with paired fleshy protuberances ; two fleshy 

 lobes over the upper lip, into whicli the anterior nostrils open. Upper 

 lip thick, the lower with a fleshy lobe posteriorly ; angle of the mouth 

 falling below the hinder margin of the eye. Premaxillaries with several 

 strong canines near the symphysis, followed by smaller teeth on the sides; 

 an inner row of small teeth anterioi^ly. Mandibular teeth in a single row, 

 and smaller than those of the upper jaw. Tongue adnate to the floor of 

 the mouth. Gill-opening lateral, about as wide as the isthmus. 



Body covered with scales of moderate size, which extend forward to 

 the eyes, and onto the breast and base of the pectoral. There are fifty 

 rows between the base of the pectoral and the hypural joint, and about 

 fourteen between the anterior dorsal and anal rays. Genital papilla well 

 developed. 



First dorsal commencing well behind the base of the pectorals ; the 

 first spine is highest, the others decrease backward, and the space between 

 the last and the anterior ray is equal to about two- thirds the length of 

 the head. Second dorsal increasing in height to about the eleventh ray, 

 which is as high as the first spine. Anal opposite and of similar form to 

 the second dorsal, but lower. Pectoral rounded, witli bifurcate rays, the 

 median ones longest, but scarcely reaching the vertical of the vent ; the 

 lower half of the median rays is covered with stout scales. Venti-als 

 inserted beneath the end of the operculum, the two tins completely united. 

 Caudal rounded, its lower rays short. 



Colour. — General colour dark brown in formaline, white below, each 

 scale of the lower portion of the sides with a bluish centre. Dorsals, 

 pectorals and caudal brownish, with light margins; ventrals and anal 

 white. 



Described and figured from a specimen 197 mm. long. Twelve other 

 specimens 16o-255 mm. long exhibit but little variation, tliough some have 

 five instead of four dorsal spines. 



SynouyDiy. — The name Gohius h(irh(irn,-<, Lium'', should ap])arently 

 apply to this species, and not to P. koelreateri, to which it has hitlierto 

 been refei^ed. Linnc quoted no references under his G. harharus, while 

 sucli characters as he gives do not enable one to identify his species. 

 Pallas later described P. srJdosserl and 1'. koelreateri, but his Avork is 

 unfortunately not available to us. Bonnaterre, however, gave recognisable 

 figures of both " Le Schlosser" and " Le Koelreuter," wliich wei-e copied 

 from Pallas according to Cuvier and Valenciennes-, and lu' attached the 

 name (i. Imrharns to the former. As tliere seems to be no i-eason to 

 suppose he was incorrect, we follow him in identifying Jjinni-'s species 

 with I', scldosserl. 



l'en'opJi.th(iliii.ns aii.-^lntli.^, Castclnan, describeil I'roni Northern (^)ueeu8- 

 laiid, is evidently synonymous with /'. hdrhnrHa. 



- Cuvier & Valenciennes — Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, pp. 181 and 192 — 

 footnotes. 



