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DESCRIPTION OF FIFTEEN 
NEW SOUTH AFRICAN FISHES, 
WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES. 
BY 
JoDo EF GikGhBise M.A... D:Sc.,. Pak, 
Government Biologist to the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 
The following report on fishes procured during the course of 
the investigations of the “‘ Pzeter Faure’ and in collections 
from shallower waters contains descriptions of three new 
genera and six new species from comparatively deep water, 
together with five new species and one new variety from 
shallow water. 
As regards the deep water forms, there are added to the 
family of the Zeidae (“ John Dories ’’) two new genera and a 
new species of a genus already described from Cape waters, 
viz., Cyttosoma (Mar. Inv., Vol. III., p. 6) which may be, as 
explained below, the adult of Cuvier and Valenciennes’ 
Oreosoma. A third new genus, of the family Stomiatide, 
is also described (Neostomias). These were all found within 
a few miles of Cape Point. Five new species, mostly from the 
same locality, are also described (Cottunculus spinosus, Laeemon- 
ema globiceps, Bathypterois filiferus, B. ater and Halosaurus 
niger). 
Notes on other deep sea forms are given (Antimora viola, 
Barathronus bicolor, Catetyx messieri, Porogadus miles, 
Chlorophthalmus gracilis, Scopelus coccoi, Ipnops murrayi, 
Halosaurus affinis, Cyttosoma boops). 
Of the shallow water forms, new species are recorded in the 
family of the Scorpenide (2), Mugilide (x), Ophidiide (1), 
Pleuronectide (3), Clupeidz (r); while notes are added on 
other shallow water species, viz., Monocentris japonicus, Zeu: 
japonicus, Synaptura cornuta, Hatophrys grandisquama, 
which have recently been found and may now be added to 
the South African Marine Fauna. 
