506 GOBIESOCID^. 



which, as usual, is composed of one spine, hidden in the skin, and 

 of four rays*. The adhesive apparatus is the same as in Slcyases 

 sanguineus ; it is longer than broad, its length being contained three 

 times and a half in the entire length of the fish. The vent and 

 the poinis urogenitalis are close together, situated midway between 

 the margin of the ventral disk and the anal. The anal papilla is 

 small. 



The colour is brownish-olive, irregularly mottled with darker or 

 reticulated with black. The largest specimen observed is four 

 inches long. Girard found a small specimen of a Patella in its 

 stomach. 



This species may prove to be identical with 0. miarmoratus. 



5. DIPLOCREPIS. 



Anterior part of the body moderately broad and depressed ; skin 

 tough ; snout somewhat poiated. Dorsal fin situated on the tail. 

 Posterior portion of the adhesive disk with the anterior margin free. 

 Both jaws with incisors, and other smaller teeth behind. GiUs three ; 

 pseudobranchiae rudimentary ; gill-membranes united under the 

 throat, and not attached to the isthmus. 



Coasts of New Zealand. 



1. Diplocrepis puniceus. 



Lepidogaster puniceus, Richards. Voy. JEreb. ^ Terr. Fishes, p. 71. 

 pi. 43. figs. 1-7. 



D. 11. A. 5. C. 11. V. 1/4. 



The posterior portion of the ventral disk has a free anterior margin, 

 Eose- coloured, dotted with red on the sides. 

 Coasts of New Zealand. 



a-b. Fine specimens. New Zealand. Presented by Captain Stokes, 

 c. Type of the species. New Zealand. Antarctic Expedition. 



The head and the anterior part of the body are less broad and less 

 depressed than in the other species of this famUy ; the skin is tough, 

 naked, with raised vertical folds on the sides. The head is not quite 

 80 broad as long, with the lateral profiles slightly curved and conver- 

 gent, so as to make the snout somewhat pointed. The nape and the 

 upper surface of the head are somewhat convex, the profile descending 

 in a gentle curve from the occiput to the eye. The width of the in- 

 terorbital space equals the diameter of the eye, which is of moderate 

 she, and contained four times and a half in the length of the head. 

 The snout is longer than the eye, with the. upper jaw slightly over- 

 lapping the lower. The cleft of the mouth is horizontal, cui-ved, 

 situated on the lower side of the snout, narrow, extending ito the 



* The description given by Girard of the ventral disk ia erroneous. Tliis 

 autlior lakes tlie ventral fins for the lower portion of the pectorals; and some 

 portion of the disk, " which he could not make out clearly," for the ventrals. 



