328 PROF. H. H. GIGLIOLI ON ANEW GADOID- [June 18, 
These projections had been taken by an automatic electro-pho- 
tographic apparatus with a regulated and exactly equal period of 
time between the phases, which are photographed synchronously 
from two or more points of view. With this apparatus thirty-six 
illustrations had been made of a horse while jumping a hurdle ; each 
of twelve phases illustrating the complete action having been simul- 
taneously photographed from the side, front, and rear. Twenty-four 
consecutive phases of the wing of a bird while flying had also been 
photographed, the time-intervals of each successive phase being 
recorded by an electro-chronograph. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On a supposed new Genus and Species of Pelagic Gadoid 
Fishes from the Mediterranean. By Henry H. Gice- 
Liot1, C.M.Z.S. 
[Received May 25, 1889.] 
(Plate XXXIV.) 
ERETMOPHORUS’, gen. nov. 
Body moderately elongate, tapering in older specimens towards 
the tail; covered with small adherent cycloid scales marked with 
concentric lines, and not extending to the head and abdomen, which 
are naked. Abdomen prolonged in a great cone, much more developed 
in the older specimens; at its extremity, nearly opposite to the 
small first dorsal fin, is the anal aperture and behind this a small 
conical papilla. A separate caudal, lanceolate in the younger specimen, 
subtruncate in the older one; two dorsals and one anal fin; the 
second dorsal and anal largely and equally developed. Pectorals 
lobate ; ventrals jugular, singularly developed, with five rays, three 
of which, and more especially the third and fourth, are greatly 
elongated and furnished at the end with a beautiful lanceolate paddle- 
like blade. Vertex of head and nape with small hyaline cylindrical 
warts. Teeth very small, few and inconspicuous, on premaxillee and 
end of mandible. Branchiostegals seven. No barbel. 
ERETMOPHORUS KLEINENBERGI, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIV.) 
TD! 45 ol. Do 73. ese gos. 20. -.P. 22. Vee ears 
Brs. vii. 
Body compressed, tapering towards the tail, but less so in the 
younger specimen, in which the huge and singular abdominal cone 
is also less developed. ‘The height of the body behind the abdominal 
cone is contained between 53 and 6 times in the total length exclusive 
of the caudal fin. The /ateral line extends nearly ina straight 
line from the branchial cleft to the end of the root of the tail ; it is 
merely marked as a furrow with indistinct pits along its course; in 
1 ’Eperpos (remus), oar; popds (ferens), carrier. 
