244 EMBIOTOCID^.. 



jaw terminating, in a long, pointed, skinny appendage ; operoles and 

 cheeks scaly ; scales of moderate size.; lateral line contimious. Dorsal 

 spines numerous, flexible. The dentigerous plate of the Jower pha- 

 ryngeal is voiy narrow. 

 King George's Sound. 



1. Siphonognathus argyrophanes. 



Richards. I. c. p. 238. pi. 0. 



D. |. A. 14. L. lat. 105. L. transv. 3/12. 



A brownish- violet band along the median. line of the back; another 

 from the snout, through the eye, to the tip of the caudal fin, which is 

 lanceolate ; a silvery band along and below the brown lateral one. 



King George's Sound. 

 a. Fine specimen. Presented by the College of Surgeons. — Type of 

 the species. 



in referring it to the same family witli the otlier Labroids." Neither Odax nor 

 Siphojvjgnafhus appear to be known to Mr. Gill from autopsy, otherwise he cer- 

 tainly would not have endeavoured to separate them into two families, whatever his 

 views of a "familv " in Ichthyology may be. Odax and Siphonognathus are (to 

 give an instance with which Mr. Oill may be more familiar) as closely and natu- 

 rnllv allied as Sus and Babirusm. 



Fam. 3. EMBIOTOCID.E. 



Holconoti sen Embiotocoida?, Agass. Am. Jmirn. xvi. 1853, p. 3S3. 



Body compressed, elevated or oblong, covered with cycloid scales. 

 Lateral line continuous. One dorsal fin, -wdth a developed spinous 

 portion, and with a scaly sheath along the base, which is separated 

 by a groove from the other scales ; ana| with three spines and nume- 

 i-ous rays. Ventral fins thoracic, with one spine and five soft rays. 

 Teeth in the jaws small, palate smooth. The lower pharyngeal bone 

 triangular, simple. Branchiostegals five or six ; gills four, pseudo- 

 branchiaj well developed ; air-bladder large, simple. Stomach with- 

 out cffical appendage, pyloric appendages none. Viviparous. 



Vertebrae 17/20 (Di/yema ar/f/re;/atvw). 



North Pacific. 



Si/)ioj)si.s of till' Genera. 



iJorsal spines 7-11 1- Bithe.ma, p. 24,^. 



Dorsal spines 16 18 2. Hv.steuocari-us, p. 251. 



