260 TRACniNlD^. 



21. PSEUDOPLESIOPS. 



Pseudoplesiops, Blecker, Goram, p. 215. 



dead and body rather compressed, oblong ; jaws eqnal anteriorly ; 

 eye lateral. Scales of moderate size, cycloid ; lateral line intcriiipted. 

 One dorsal, mthout spines ; ventrals jugular, without spine. Jaws 

 and vomer with a band of teeth, the former with canines ; palatine 

 bones toothless. Pra3operculum entire. Six bran chiostegals; pseudo- 

 branchiiiD present. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



1. Pseudoplesiops typus. 

 JSleeke)', Goram, p. 217. 



B. 6. D. 25. A. 16. V. 5. L. lat. 36. 



The height of the body is 3g in the total length (without caudal). 

 The upper maxillary reaches to below the middle of the eye. Four 

 series of scales on the check. The two outer rays of the ventral 

 elongate and filiform. Yellowish. {Bl.) 



Sea of Goram. 



22. NOTOTHENIA*. 



Notothenia, Richards. Voy. Ereh. % Terr. Fishes, p. 5. 



Body more or less elongate, slightly compressed posteriorly, rounded 

 anteriorly, with the head depressed; cleft of the mouth slightly 

 oblique, with the lower jaw longest; eye directed upwards. Scales 

 rather small, ciliated ; lateral line interrupted. Two dorsals, thb 

 first separated from the second by a very deep notch, with the spines 

 flexible (in one species stiff) ; ventrals jugular ; the lower pectoral 

 rays branched. In both the jaws cardiform or villiform teeth ; pa- 

 late smooth. Operculum with two obtuse points ; pra}operculum 

 entire. Six branchiostegals ; the gill-membranes joined infcriorly ; 

 pseudobranchiae. Air-bladder none ; pyloric appendages in smaU 

 number. 



Antarctic Seas ; Falkland, Auckland, and Kerguelen's Islands. 

 New Zf^aland. — Antipodes of Cottus. 



1. Notothenia tessellata. 

 Richards. Voy. Ereb. q Terr. Fishes, p. 19. pi. 12. f. 2, 3. 

 D. 6 I 33-34. A. 33. L. lat. 66-70. 

 The length of the head is one-fourth of the total, the height of 

 the body one-sixth. The upper surface of the hca>d covered vrith 



* I. Nolotlieiiia plioc.T, Richards. I. c. p. 8. — Aniaretic Glacinl Ocean. 



2. GacUis niagollaiiiciis, {Foisf.) Bl. Schn. p. 10; Notothenia raagcllanicn, 

 Richards. I. r. p. 9. — Terra del Fuego. 



