23. HARPAOIFEB. 263 



8. Notothenia macrocephalus. 

 D. 5 I 30-31. A. 21. L. lat. 58. 



The upper surface of the head broad and flat ; the width of the 

 interorbital space is contained twice and three-fourths in the length 

 of the head. Lateral line interrupted below the third dorsal ray 

 before the last. 



Falkland Islands. 



a. Fourteen inches long : stuffed. Falkland Islands. Purchased of 

 Mr. Jamrach. 



9. Notothenia rossii. 

 Notothenia (?)rossii, Richards. I. c. p. 9. pi. 5. f. 1, 2. 

 I>.7|f,. A.i. L. lat. 62. 



The spines of the fins not flexible and very short. The length of 

 the head is one-foiirth of the total. (Bieh.) 

 Hah. ? 



23. HARPAGIFER. 



Harpagifer, Richards. Voy. Ereb. 8f Terr. Fishes, p. IT. 



Habit cottoid. Scales none; lateral line not continued to the 

 caudal. Two dorsals, the first with three or four flexible spines ; 

 ventrals jugular; the lower pectoral rays branched. In both the 

 jaws vUliform teeth ; palate smooth. Operculum and suboperculum 

 with very long spines. Six branchiostegals ; the gLll-membranes 

 attached to the isthmus between ; psoudobranchise. Air-bladder 

 none ; pyloric appendages in small number. 



Coasts of Cape Horn and of the Falkland Islands. — Antipodes of 

 Cottm. 



1. Harpagifer hispinis. 



Callionymus bisprnis, Forster. 



Batrachus bispinis, Bl. Schn. p. 45. 



Harpagifer bispinis, Richards. /. c, p. 11. pi. 7, f. 1-3, p. 19. pi. 12. 



f. 8, 9. 

 palliolatus, Richards. I. c. p. 20. pi. 12. f. 5-7. 



D. 3-4 I 24. A. 18. Ca^c. pylor. 3. Vert. 11/18. 



Operculum with a very long antler- like spine above, directed up- 

 wards ; suboperculum with a smaller spine directed backwards. 

 Male with-tentacles above the eye, and with the margin of the pra6- 

 operculum fringed. Reddish-oUve, with very large brown blotches, 

 more or less confluent. 



Cape Horn ; Falkland Islands. 



a-g. Fine specimens. Falkland Islands. Presented^ 



by W. E. Wright, E«q. 

 7i. Fine specimen. Falkland Islands. Presented by I Types of the 



W. E. "Wright, Esq. [ species. 



i. Adult male. Falkland Islands. Presented by 



W. E. Wright, Esq. 



