12. cLiNUs. 267 



wide, the gill-membranes being united at the throat. Head naked ; 

 scales on tlic body not very small, cycloid. The dorsal fin commences 

 at the occiput, and terminates near the base of the caudal : the 

 spines are lloxible, and much lower than the soft rays ; the three 

 anterior ones are rather more remote from one another than the 

 following : none of the rays of this or of the other fins are branched. 

 Caudal rounded. The anal is higher posteriorly than anteriorly, 

 about as high as the spinous dorsal. Pectoral rounded, with the 

 middle rayc longest, shorter than the head. Ventrals jugular, half as 

 long as the pectoral, with the spine and the outer ray enveloped in a 

 common thick membrane. Dark greyish-olive : head and fins black- 

 ish ; head, base of the pectoral, anterior part of the body, and dorsal, 

 dotted with white. 



Pacific coast of Central America. 



a. Fine specimen. From Captain Dow's Collection ; presented by 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, Seer. Zool. Soc. 



lines. 



Total length 61 



Height of the body 8 



Length of the head 12 



Greatest width of the head 11 



Depth of the head 7^ 



Length of the caudal fin 10 



of the pectoral fin 10^ 



12. Clinus latipinnis. 



CJlinus latipinnis, Cttc. &,• Val. xi. p. .394. 

 Ophthabnolophus latipinnis, Gill, I. c. p. 104. 



V.-. A. 5g. \.J. 



The height of the body is one-sixth of the total length, the length 

 of the head one-fifth. A short fringed tentacle above the orbit. The 

 dorsal fin extends on to the caudal, is continuous, and has the soft 

 portion higher than the spinous. Brown, sometimes with indistinct 

 dark cross-bars ; rays of the caudal and pectoral fins dotted with 

 brown. (Val.) 



Cape of Good Hope. 



13. Clinus gobio. 



Clinus gobio, Cuv. ^- Val. xi. p. 395. 

 Gobioclinus gobio, GUI, I. c. p. 103. 



B. 6. D. ^. A. ■^. V. 2. L. lat. 30. L. transv. 10. 



Head large and broad, its length being contained three times and 

 a half in the total ; the height of the bodj' is four times and a half 

 in it. Eye large, two-fifths of the length of the head ; the mdth 

 of the interorbital space is one-half of the diameter of the eye. Ten- 

 tacle above the orbit very small, sometimes absent. Snout short, 

 with the anterior profile subvcrtical. Vomerine and palatine teeth. 



