BY 3. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 21 
terminal filament, its height 2¢in the head, and 
reaching backwards beyond the origin of the second 
dorsal, to the base of which it is attached by membrane. 
Length of second dorsal rather less than its distance from 
the tip of the snout and 13 in the length of the head ; rays 
subequal, the third the highest, ? of the basal length ; de- 
pressed rays reaching slightly beyond the base of the caudal. 
Anal fin originating behind the second dorsal, acutely 
pointed, the middle ray the highest, 2; in the basal 
length, a little higher than the highest dorsal ray, 
and extending far beyond the basa of the caudal; 
its length is rather more than } that of the head; 
its distance from the tip of the closed mandible 
+ of the total length: last dorsal and anal rays 
without membrane, leaving a clear space between them and 
the caudal. Length of caudal fin 2:, of space 
between its base and the last dorsal ray 553, least 
depth of caudal peduncle 62 in the total length. 
Pectoral fin extending, when depressed, to the root of the 
caudal; its length with that of the free pseudobrachium 
about half the total length. Second ventral ray the long- 
est, } of the head. Roseate ; inter-and post-orbital regions, 
deep violescent gray studded with blackish spots and bars ; 
the whole of the eye, except the pupil, which is yellow, 
suffused with a lighter tint of the same; a broad band 
across the preorbital and the inner edge of the maxillary 
violaceous gray; entire postmental, thoracic, and sub- 
opercular regions suffused with lac ; tip of chin violet; a 
round violaceous spot on the side of the head below the post- 
orbital blotch; a broad irregular violaceous band, with 
deeply embayed edges, and containing blotches and spots 
of deep black, from below the eight anterior rays of the 
second dorsal to the inner angle of the pseudobrachium ; a large 
rounded spot of the same color below the middle of the ap- 
pressed limb; a second band nearly covering the caudal 
peduncle ; all the filaments, wherever situated, deep black. 
Rostral spine with alternate rings of violet and white, the 
tentacle blackish ; membrane of frontal spine purple ; basal 
half of occipital spine roseate, the rest purple ; its entire 
membrane, except the outer angle, rosy ; rays of soft dorsal 
blackish, the connecting membrane hyaline, more or less 
