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those of the middle region of the body, with free edges not 
running into the minute ctenoid scales, which cover the rays 
of the dorsal and anal to over half their length. Scales similar 
to the last mentioned occur also in the rays of the pectoral. 
On the head region there are a series of bony ridges, viz., on 
the operculum where they assume a fan shape, and along the 
border of the preoperculum. The interoperculum has also a 
few striz, as have also the maxillary, mandibular, preorbital 
and supraorbital. 
This description is from the largest specimen (170 mm., in- 
cluding caudal). The smaller specimen (about 3 of thus 
length), besides having larger eyes, showed a marked differ- 
ence in the greater length of the large spines of the dorsal, anal 
and ventral. In the larger these were respectively 24, 19 and 
26 mm., being 22, 18 and 24 in a specimen 126 mm. 
Two were procured in the same haul as Pseudocyttus macu-_ 
latus. (Reference numbers, 17,947, 17,939.) 
Zeus japonicus, C.v. 
Three specimens of this fish have recently been found in 
South African waters. The largest (300 mm.) was procured by 
large trawl from the East Coast (Nanquas Peak, N.E. by N. + 
N., 64 miles), from a depth of 47 fathoms, bottom mud. 
One, 170 mm. in length, from Simonstown, forwarded by a 
fisherman, and one only an inch in length, procured off the 
Tugela River (N. by W. 2 W., 153 miles) by shrimp trawl, from 
a depth of 40 fathoms, January Ist, 1901. (Reference No. 
11,307.) 
There can be little doubt as to the identification of these 
specimens as they were found to agree with the description 
and figure of Zeus japonicus, and Mr. Boulenger, who has been 
good enough to compare a specimen, finds it shows complete 
agreement with Japanese specimens of Z. japonicus. 
ees Zeus capensis, C.V. 
The list of the members of the family of the Zeidz of the 
Cape seas may be completed by a note on the single species 
previously recorded from South Africa (Zeus Capensis, C. and 
V., x p. 23). This species is described as differing from 
the European Z. faber only in (1) having the number 
of plates at the base of the soft dorsal smaller and 
more numerous (eleven), and (2) especially in their spines being 
