Deep Water off the Coast of Natal. 417 
lower jaw with a small pointed median projection. Bones 
of upper surface of head rough, with blunt ridges; depth 
of suborbital equal to that of naked area below it ; preeorbital 
with one or two blunt spines; 1 subopercular and 4 or 5 
preopercular spines ; 2 divergent supraclavicular spines, the 
inner short; humeral spine 4 to ? length of head. 52 to 56 
oblique series of scales from behind humeral spine to eaudal. 
Dorsal LV 13; spines flexible; fourth soft ray longest, 2 to 
JF length of head. Anal 13; base aS long as its distance from 
hind end of base of pelvics; last ray nearly reaching caudal. 
Pectoral 17, as long as caudal, # head. Greyish or brownish, 
with or without numerous rounded pale spots; spinous 
dorsal blackish. 
‘I'wo specimens, 130 and 280 mm. long. 
There are two other South-African examples of Uranoscopus 
in the British Museum—one from Mossel Bay and the other 
from off the Tugela River, 64 to 73 fathoms. ‘These have 
been determined as U. occidentalis, Agass., a species unsatis- 
factorily described as from the Atlantic, and probably a 
synonym of U. scaber. ‘The 'Tugela specimen is U. archio- 
nema, but the one from the Cape seems to belong to a new 
species *. 
Strembo (Haplobrotula) gnathopus, sp. n. 
Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, which is 5 
in length of fish and equal to its distance from origin of anal; 
distance from end of snout to origin of dersal 4 in length 
of fish. Snout obtuse, a little shorter than diameter of eye, 
which is 43 in length of head and equal to interorbital width. 
Upper surface ef head naked; cheeks and opercles scaly. 
Lower jaw included ; maxillary extending beyond eye, the 
width of its distal end equal to length of snout. Praoper- 
culum with 8 spines. 18 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 
arch ; posterior rather long, anterior small tubercles, Lateral 
line complete and continuous ; 8 or 9 scales between it and 
origin of dorsal. Dorsal 105, scaleless ; origin above anterior 
4 ot pectoral. Anal 85. Pectoral 2 length of head. Pelvics 
* Uranoscopus haplostoma, sp. nu. 
Near U. archionema, but mandibular valve with regular margin, 
without trace of lobe or filament ; suborbital deeper than naked part of 
cheek; humeral spine ¢ head; third ray of soft dorsal longest; base 
of au as long as its distance from spines on pelyis. D.1V,13. <A. 14. 
Se. 56. 
‘Voial length 180 mm. 
Mossel Bay, 5. Africa, 
