240 RECORDS OP TEE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Panigoliodon melanosoma, Bleeker, Resell. Faun. Madagascar, 1875, p. 78, 

 and Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., xiii., 1878, p. 54. 



Rnppellia echinocephala, Jordan & Richardson, Check-list Fish. Philippine 

 Islands, 1910, p. 47. 7(7., Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus., ii., 1913, p. 92. 



Kuppellia melanosoma, Jordan & Richardson, Loc. cit. 



D. vi/10 ; A. 10 ; P. 20 ; V. i/5 ; C. 17. 24 scales between the axil 

 and the hypural joint, and 10 between the anterior dorsal and anal rays. 



Depth 3 in the lengtli to the hypural joint; head 3"2 in the same. 

 Eye 37 in the head, a trifle longer than the snout, and 16 in the in- 

 terocular space. Breadth before the bases of the pectorals 1"4 in the 

 depth ; depth of the caudal peduncle 1'7 in the head. 



Head a little deeper than long, naked, with bristle-like filaments ; 

 these are longest and most numerous on the lower surfaces, while they 

 also cover the operculum and occiput, and leave the upper portion of the 

 cheek and side of the neck bare. Some large open pores are present on 

 the preopercular border, behind the eye, and on the interorbital area. 

 Eyes in the anterior half of the head, separated by a wide convex in- 

 terorbital space. Snout very obtuse, the anterior profile snbvertical, the 

 upper arched evenly backward to the dorsal spines; chin prominent. 

 Mouth subvertical, the maxilla reaching to below the anterior border of 

 the eye. Nostrils large, the anterior in a tube near the lip, the pos- 

 terior almost above the margin of the eye and with a raised margin. A 

 band of villiform teeth in each jaw, the outer ones enlarged anteriorly ; 

 a strong inner canine on each side of the mandibular symphysis, followed 

 by two or three smaller ones towards the sides. Tongue thick, rounded 

 anteriorly and free. Gill-openings opposite and about as wide as the 

 bases of the pectoi'als, narrower than the isthmus separating them ; 

 shoulder-girdle smooth. 



Body short and thick, with large ctenoid scales which commence 

 abrupty on an oblique line extending from the axil to the anterior dorsal 

 I'ay ; aljdpmen laigely scaly, the base of the pectoral and the breast 

 naked, the latter with filaments similar to those of the head. Median 

 I'ow of body scales with vertical series of minute mucigerous papilla*. 

 Genital papilla large. 



First dorsal fin rounded and coimected with the base of the second 

 by membrane ; the fourth spine is longest, and about once and two-thirds 

 as long as the eye. Second dorsal somewhat rounded and higher than 

 the fii'st, the median rays longest, the posterior not reaching the base of 

 the caudal. Anal opposite the soft dorsal, the lays increasing in height 

 to the eighth. Pectoral laige and rounded, reaching to above the third 

 anal ray. Veil train rounded and cup-shaped, their lower surfaces densely 

 papillose ; the s|)ines aie broad with a furrow on their anterior faces, and 

 bent backward at their tips; they suppoit a strong basal membrane. 

 Caudal rounded. 



Colour. — Unifoinily bleached after long preservation in alcohol. 

 Unifoiin leddish-biown, according to Macleay. 



