Dr. A. Guntlier on new Species of Fishes. 369 



Equula elongata. 

 D - A ^ 



The height of the body is nearly one fifth of the total 

 length (withoiit caudal), the length of the head one fourth. 

 Eye nearly as long as the snout and as the postorbital part of 

 the head. A minute spine above the anterior margin of the 

 orbit ; pra?.opercular margins not serrated. Caudal fin deeply 

 emarginate. Upper half of the body greenish, irregularly 

 marbled with darker; two brown spots at the root of the 

 caudaL Lower half silvery. 



North Celebes (Dr. A. B. Meyer). Length 2| inches. 



Rhamphocottus (g. n. Cottid.). 



Head exceedingly large, compressed, with the snout pro- 

 duced into a short, narrow beak, the feeble lower jaw being 

 received within the upper. Eyes lateral. Body small, com- 

 pressed, covered with prickles. Two dorsal fins, of moderate 

 height ; pectorals with nearly all the rays simple. Ventrals 

 thoracic, three-rayed. Jaws and vomer with villiform teeth ; 

 no teeth on the palate. 



hocottus Richardsonii. 

 D. 6 I 13. A. 7. C. IL P. 14. V. 3. 



The head is as long as the body without caudal fin ; it is 

 nearly entirely covered with bone or rough hard skin. The 

 narrow pointed snout is twice as long as the eye, the diameter 

 of which is contained five times and a half in the length of tlie 

 head. The upper surface of the head is narrow, concave, with 

 a swollen edge on each side. Its armature consists of a pair of 

 small sj)ines on the snout, in front of the eye, of a small super- 

 ciliary spine above the hind margin of the orbit, an obtuse 

 occipital spine, a rather long spine at the angle of the prae- 

 operculum, and a scapulary spine. 



The jaws are feeble, the lower fitting within the upper ; the 

 cleft of the mouth lateral, not extending to the front margin of 

 the orbit. 



The entire body is covered with prickles vertically pro- 

 jecting, and terminating in two or three minute booklets. 



Dorsal fins rather low, and the spines of the first very 

 feeble ; caudal rounded, of moderate length. Pectorals large, 

 but not quite extending so far backwards as the ventrals, 

 which reach beyond the anterior anal rays. 



Light brownish, marbled with darker ; several brown cross 

 bands, edged with whitish on the crown of the head. 



