28 Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on 



corneal margin. The edge of the cephalic disk bears in 

 addition large finely granular multifid spines in three longi- 

 tudinal series, and the tail is clad with large granular conical 

 tubercles — of which there are five longitudinal series on each 

 side — in close contact. 



Fins in form and position as in Ilalieutcea, Maltke, <^c., 

 but the soft dorsal, as well as the spinous, is entirely wanting, 

 and the anal is almost rudimentary. The pectorals, which 

 are about a third longer than the ventrals and a little longer 

 than tlie caudal, are nearly one fiftli the total length. 



Stomach large, siphonal, much constricted at the pylorus. 

 Intestine coiled and very wide. No pyloric ca3ca. No air- 

 bladder. 



Colour in life uniform light pink. 



Two specimens, measuring 2*75 inches in length, from 

 Station 115, 18« to 220 fathoms. 



Family Cataphracti. 

 13. Peristethus, Kaup. 



Peristetkus Murrayi^ Gthr. 



Peristethus Murrayi, Giinther, 'Challenger ' Shore-fishes, p. -52, pi. xxxii. 

 fig. A. 



A single adult specimen from Station llo, 188 to 220 

 fathoms, and two young ones. Tiie young ones in life were 

 of a uniform dusky violet colour, the colour of the adult being 

 red. The young also differ from the adult in having three 

 small upstanding points, disposed in a triangle, on the forehead. 



Order A N A C A N T H I N I. 



Family Gadidae. 



Physiculus, Kaup. 



14. Physiculus roseuSj sp. n. 



B. 7. D. 7/57. A. bo. V. 7. 



Head and trunk broad ; tail compressed, higher than the 

 trunk anteriorly. Length of the head very nearly one fourth 

 of the total, including the caudal ; its breadth, which exceeds 

 its height, is a good deal more than half its length. Greatest 

 height of the body, just behind the origin ofthe dorsal fin, 

 about one sixth of the total. 



Snout depressed, broader than long, obtusely rounded ; its 



