10. GENYPTERFS. 379 



6. Ophidium brevibarbe. 



Cuv. Hkgne Anim. ; Cuv. R^gneAnim. III. Poiss. p. 326 ; Midi. Ahhandl. 

 Berl. Acad. 1843, p. 153. pi. 4. fig. 4 (air-bladder) ; Kaup, Catal. 

 Apod. Fish. p. 154. pi. 16. fig. 1 (head). 



A short decurved spine on the point of the snout. Teeth strong ; 

 occiput and gill-cover scaly. Vertical fins edged with black. (Kaup.) 



Air-bladder oblong-ovate, without contracted portion and with- 

 out posterior foramen ; no single anterior bone, replaced by a carti- 

 lage. (Mull.) 



Brazils. 



10. GENTPTERUS. 



Xiphiurus *, Smith, III. Zool. South Africa. 

 Genypterus, Philippi in Wiegrn. Ai-ch. 1857, p. 268. 

 Hdpjopliycis, Kaup in Wiegm. Arch. 1858, p. 93. 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with minute scales. Eye of 

 moderate size.^ Vertical fins continuous ; ventral fins replaced by a 

 pair of bifi4 filaments (barbels) inserted below the glossohyal. 

 Teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and th6 palatine bones : the outer 

 series in the jaws and the single series of the palatines contain 

 strong teeth. Lower jaw received within the upper. Vent situated 

 at some distance behind the pectoral. Seven or eight branchiostegals ; 

 gill -openings wide ; giUs four, a slit behind the fourth ; pseudo- 

 branchiae and air-bladder present. Pyloric appendages in small 

 number (six). 



Coasts of South Africa. Temperate parts of the South Pacific. 



1. Genypterus capensis. 



Konin^ van Klipvischen (Cape). 



Ophidium blacodes, pt., Forst. Descr. Anitn.^. 115 (Bl. Schn. p. 485). 

 Xiphiurus capensis, Smith, HI. Zool. S. Afr. Pise. c. tab. 

 Hpplophycis lalandii, Katy) in Wiegm. Arch. 1858, p. 93. 



B. 7-8. D. 156. A. 117. 



Barbels shorter than the head, bifid at their extremities. The 

 maxillary extends beyond the eye. Vent situated in, or before, the 

 middle of the length of the fish. Opeiculum terminating in a hori- 

 zontal spine. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



Or-b. Thirty-nine inches long : stuffed. Cape. Presented by Sir A. 



Smith. — Types of the species. 

 c-d. Half-grown and young : stuffed. Cape. Presented by Sir A. 



Smith. 



2. Genypterus blacodes. 



Ophidium blacodes, pt. (from New Zealand, and not from the Cape), 



Forst. Descr. Anim. ed. Licht. p. 115 ; Bl. Schn. p. 484. 

 blacodes, Milll. Abhandl. Berl. Acad. 1843, p. 153. 



* Preoccupied. 



