81 



(t. in. 



Circumference of the body near the fore-paws 3 2 



Breadth of the back at the fore-paws 1 O 



From one fore-paw to the other, extended out 2 6 



Length of the fore-paw O 10 



Length of the hind-paw O 11 



Circumference at the hind-paws 1 6 



Breadth of the head across the ears, horizontally measured. . O 7 



Length of the head O 9 



Breadth of the nose , . . . , O 4|- 



" Other seals have been taken nearly, if not quite, double this 

 size." 



A paper was then read, " On a new Genus of the Family LopMda 

 (les Pectorales Pediculėes, Cuv.) discovered in Madeira." By the 

 Rev. R. T. Lowe, M. A., Corr. Memb. 



The addition, Mr. Lowe observes, of an uneąuivocal new genus to 

 a family so circumscribed and so singular as LophidcB is well-worthy 

 of remark. Tlie present genus has, besides, further claims on the 

 attention of the ichthyologist in the peculiar combination of distinc- 

 tive features of its own \vith characters exhibited by other groups in 

 the šame familv ; and this independent of the interest attaching to 

 the fish in -vybich they are exemplified, from singularity of form and 

 aspect, brilliancy of colouring, locality, and extreme rarity, no other 

 instance of its capture at Madeira having occurred during the lašt 

 twenty y ears. 



It is nearest allied amongst the groups of Lopkidee, in general 

 habit and aspect, with Cheironecles, Cuv., although in technical cha- 

 racters it may seem to approach even nearer to Halieutaa, Ys\. 



The individual described was taken with an ordinary bait and line 

 at the Picos, a rocky shoal about a league fi'om shore ott' Camera de 

 Lobos, a village five or six miles westward of Funchal. 



Chaunax, nov. gen. 



Char. Gen. Corpus subcubico-oblongura, sufflatabile, nudum, cute 

 praesertim ad ilia ventremąue flaccidissima laxa ; anticė obesum, pos- 

 ticž abrupte attenuatum subcompressura. Caput osseum magnum 

 subtetrahedrum, supernė nuchaque latum planatum, utrinque S. ad 

 genas declive ; oculis lateralibus spatio interoculari convexo ; ore 

 rictuąue amplissimis transversis plagio-plateis S. depressis. Dentes 

 intermaxillares vomeriniąue palatiniąue parvi scobinati. Nares sim- 

 plices (nec pedicellatae nec tubulosBe). Spiracula (foramina branchi- 

 alia) postica S. ad ilia pone pinnarum pectoralium axillas. 



Pinna doi'salis unica ; pectoralibus (pedicellatis) carnosis ventrali- 

 bus jugularibus spathulatis carnosis ; analis postica ; caudalis sim- 

 plex truncata. 



Cirri, prseter unicum in fossula intemasali, nuUi. 



Chaunax pietus, Lowe. 



D. 11; A. 5; P. 11; V. 4; C. ^-^į- 



