1 86 S out hern Cross. 



11. NOTOTIIENIA MACROCEniALA, Gtlir. 

 Canipbc'll Ishiiul. 



BOVICHTHYS, Cuv. et Val. 



12. ?)OVIfIITIIVS VAIUEGATUS, l^ich. 



Seveml specimens from Campbell Island. 



GYMNODRACO, gen. n. 



Body elongate, depressed in front, compressed behind, naked ; 

 two lateral lines. Snout flattened, much produced; mouth large, 

 jaws with a single series of closely-set, curved compressed teeth, and 

 witli very large canines anteriorly, those of the mandible exposed in 

 front of the snout ; palate toothless. Gill-cover with two spines, the 

 upper very strong and with a hooked branch. Gill-membrane 

 narrowly attached to isthmus ; branch iostegal rays 6. A single, 

 lonf' dorsal fin, formed of articulated ravs ; a similar anal fin. 



Scapular fenestra between the scapula and the coracoid. Ver- 

 tebrae 20 -I- 28 ; ribs and epipleiu-als very slender, inserted behind 

 well-developed parapophyses on the praesacral vertebrae. 



13. Gymxodraco acuticeps, sp. n. 



(Platk XVII.) 



Depth of body 8 to 9 times in total length, length of head 3 to 

 3|. Head strongly depressed, twice as long as broad ; snout acutely 

 pointed, as long as postocular part of head ; nostril rather large, not 

 tubular, nearer tlie eye than the end of the snout ; interorbital region 

 broad and slightly concave ; diameter of eye 5 times in length of 

 head, equal to interorbital width ; maxillary extending to below 

 anterior border of eye ; lower jaw strongly projecting beyond the 

 snout, which is overlapped by the very strong backwardly directed 

 canine teeth with which the symphysis is furnished ; the anterior 

 canine teeth of the praemaxillaries directed forward, the posterior 

 stronger and directed backward ; opercle armed Avith a very strong. 

 Hat spine, with an upper hooked l)ranch as in Harpa(jifer ; subopercle 

 with a small spiuo. Dorsal 28-30, originating a little in advance of 



