Miscellaneous. 77 



guedoc and La Camargue ; but the great whale with a channelled 

 belly, mentioned by Dalechamp as having come ashore in his time 

 near Montpellier, must be regarded as a Rorqual, and the jaws of 

 this species preserved at Frontignan have probably a similar origin. 

 M. Gervais records, as specimens which have grounded during 

 more recent periods, one, 17 feet long, of which the skeleton is in 

 the museum of Perpignan ; a larger one, taken at Saint- Cyprien, 

 described by Farines and Carcassonne as Balcenopfera aragous ; that 

 of Saint-Tropez in 1833; those of the ile Sainte-Marguerite, one 

 in 1797, described by Lacepede and Cuvier, the other in 1864 ; and 

 two or three others taken near Toulon, of which the skulls or entire 

 skeletons have been preserved. — Comptes RenduSj Nov. 28, 1864, 

 p. 876. 



Descriptions of some neiv Fishes, By Prof. Kner. 



The fishes described by Professor Kner were collected by Dr. E. 

 Graffe on the private expeditions fitted out by MM. J. C. Godeffroy 

 & Son, of Hamburg. 



Family Labroidae. 



Thysanocheilus, nov. gen. 



Char. gen. Ambo labia margine fimbriato, dentes acuti uniseriales 

 supra et infra, in medio ossis intermaxillaris 4, inframaxillaris 2 

 dentes canini, 2 quoque supra ad oris angulum ; totum caput, labiis 

 exceptis, squamis minutis tectum, nee non guttur penitus clausum 

 ad isthmum usque ; trunci squamae magnse ; linea lateralis continua, 

 simplex ; pinnse ventrales in filum prolongatse, caudalis rotundata. 



Thysanocheilus ornatus. 



T. color universalis nigrescens, ad abdominis latera albicans ; truncus 

 et fere omnes pinnae lineis et punctis cyaneis obsitse. D. 7/12. 

 A. 3/10. Sq. long. 28, vertic. 15-16. 



From Upolu (Navigator's or Samoa Islands). Catal. no. 791. 

 Most nearly allied to Lahrichthys cyanotcenia, Bleek. (Atlas, i. tab. 22. 

 fig. 1 ) ; but in this the lower lip only is fringed, and there is only 

 one canine in the upper jaw, at the angle of the mouth ; it also 

 wants the complete union and scaling of the sides of the throat ; and 

 the colour and form of the head differ. 



Family Squalidae. 



Leius, nov. gen. 



Char. gen. Rostrum obtusum, modice productum ; dentes supra- 

 maxillares parvi, acuti, pluriseriales et mobiles, inframaxillares nu- 

 mero 26, uniseriales, lati, apice medio prselongo, in laminam immo- 

 bilem coaliti, antrorsum spectantes ; foramina temporalia semilunaria ; 

 pinnae parvae et inermes, prima dorsalis anali opposita et secundae 

 vicina, analis nulla; cutis laeviuscula ; fissurae brauchiales 5, parvae. 



Leius ferox. 

 L. capitis longitudo ad primam usque fissuram branchialem 5| in 



