SOME NEW PEDICULATE FISHES. 
By J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 
[ Read before the Royal Society of Queensland 2nd April, 1906.] 
RHYCHERWUS, gen. nov. 
Form robust; body compressed, elevated in front, 
rapidly tapering behind. Head large, as deep as long. 
Skin smooth, densely clothed with cutaneous appendages. 
Mouth protractile, with moderate subvertical cleft; 
maxillary thin and flexible, remiform, extending well 
beyond cleft of mounth. Jaws, vomer, and palatines with 
small cardiform teeth; tongue smooth. Eyes moder- 
ate; infraorbital groove deep and naked. Gill-opening 
formng a simple longitudinal sht on the lower edge of the 
pseudobrachium some distance in advance of the fin. All 
the fins with numerous appendages : dorsal spines well de- 
veloped, erect, mobile, free ; rostral spine slender, rising 
directly from the tip of the snout, and terminating in a bi- 
fid tentacle ; frontal and occipital spines stouter than but 
as fiexible as the rostral, widely separatea, with a deep 
naked fossa intervening, the latter inserted ar behind the 
eye ; second dorsal with 13 rays, most of which terminate in 
along filament: anal fin with 8 simple rays, inserted below the 
terminal third of and far overlapping the soft dorsal : caudal 
fin rounded, with 9 rays, all except the outer pair branched : 
caudal peduncle free: pseudobrachium :mmobile, firmly 
fixed to the side by the enveloping cuticle, pectoral fin large 
and rounded, with 10 simple rays, extending, when appressed, 
to the origin of the anal: ventrals small and rounded, with 
5 simple rays.  (pexypos, ragged: in allusion to its shaggy 
appearance due to the crowded cutaneous appendages). 
Southern Shores of Australia (Victoria and South 
Australia). Two species. This genus forms a connecting 
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