be 
Ts tad 
Ry: 
i 
Miscellaneous. 79 
of the plaits and spines (some are even quite smooth), but also in 
the depth of the notch of the hinder part of the outer lip. 
The named species of Latiaxis, Faunus, and Melanatria are not 
even local varieties. A series of specimens from the same locality 
show the variations in the surface on which these dealers’ species 
are professed to be distinguished, which should be treated as the 
names given to flowers by nurserymen and florists are by the botanist, 
as they are scarcely worthy the attention of the scientific conchologist. 
The effect of this useless multiplication of names has been to almost 
entirely prevent conchology being studied as a science. 
Descriptions of new Fishes. By F. Ste1nDACHNER. 
1. Plecostomus Wertheimeri.—Marginal scutes of the sides of the 
head closely beset with long bristle-like spines; a row of broad 
transverse plates on each side of the belly between the pectoral and 
ventral; head adorned with black spots, body with yellow spots. 
From the river Mucuri in Brazil. 
2. Cottus Brandtii.—Head parabolic ; skin of body scaleless ; pree- 
operculum with three spines, of which the uppermost is the longest; 
mouth-cleft oval, longer than broad; vomer with teeth ; upper sur- 
face of head closely set with round warts. D.9/13; A.11; V. 3; 
P. 17. From the mouth of the Amur. 
3. Amblyopus Sieboldi.—Length of head contained 9 times in 
the total length, or 73 times in the length of the body; greatest 
depth ;4, of the total length; caudal pointed, long, § of the total 
length. D. 6/48-49; A.44; C.17. Mouth of the Amur. 
4. Pseudorhombus adspersus.—Length of head contained 32 times, 
depth of body 22 in the total length; diameter of eye % of the 
length of the head; numerous black points, spots, and rings on the 
whole body. D. 72; A.58; P.12; V.5; L. lat. 104. From the 
Chinchas Islands. 
5. Scopelus spinosus.—Scales of body toothed; a long spine on 
the lower extremity of each scale of the last longitudinal series but 
one above the anal, which is longer than the dorsal ; diameter of the 
eye 4 the length of the head. D.14; A. 20; V.9; L. lat. 40; 
3 
_L. transv.~1_—. From China. 
53 (43) 
6. Genus Teniolabrus.—Body rather compressed, much elon- 
gated, of very small depth, covered with cycloid scales; head scale- 
less; ventral fins articulated a little before the pectorals *; teeth in 
intermaxillaries and lower jaw uniserial, pointed, the foremost the 
longest; vomer and palatal bone with teeth; dorsal and anal fins 
very long; lateral line not interrupted. 
7. Teniolabrus filamentosus.—Head pointed, 4 of the total length; 
lower jaw protruding ; eyes approximated ; depth of body ;'; of the 
* In the original the author contrasts “ Bauchflossen”’ with “ Ventra- 
len,” which are identical; the above is probably his meaning. 
