1890.] SPECIES OF FISHES FROM MADEIRA. 459 



rictus is oblique and extends much beyond the eye. The inside 

 of the mouth and the gill-covers is black. There are no pseudo- 

 branchia3. The under jaw for the greater part of its length tits 

 inside the upper, and it carries a row of sharp, curved, conical 

 teeth, with a few small ones in the intervals between them. In 

 front there is an outer row of eight similar, but shorter teeth. In 

 the upper jaw there is only one row of similarly shaped teeth in 

 front ; then come three on each side, the longest in the mouth, 

 and these are about 3 millim. in length. Posteriorly the longer 

 teeth become smaller and the intervening teeth very small. There 

 are a few teeth on the vomer ; on the palatines a row of minute 

 sharp teeth ; a patch of minute teeth on the entopterygoids ; and 

 at the tip of the very small tongue a few minute teeth. 



The dorsal fin is placed at the middle of the back over the space 

 between the ventral and anal. It has 11 rays and its base is 11 

 mm. long. It is rather injured, but what remains has a height of 13 

 mm. There is no adipose fin, nor are there any spines behind the 

 dorsal or anal. The pointed pectorals have ten rays, are inserted 

 low down, and do not reach so far back as the root of the veutrals. 

 The narrow pointed abdominal veutrals contain 8 rays and reach 

 back beyond the beginning of the anal ; they are shorter than the 

 pectorals. The anal is not so high as the dorsal, but its base is 

 longer ; it has about 33 rays. The deeply cleft caudal is damaged, 

 but as it is it measures 14 mm. 



The lateral line begins near the edge of the opercle one third of 

 the height from the outline of the back, and falls gently until it 

 reaches the middle of the height under the dorsal ; it then runs 

 straight to the base of the caudal. The scales having been removed 

 could not be counted. 



The two rows of spots previously mentioned are closely set low 

 down on each side of the belly. The upper row, on which between 

 60 and 70 spots may be counted, begins at the throat and is con- 

 tinued to the base of the caudal; the lower row runs along the 

 isthmus between the gill-openings and likewise extends to the caudal. 

 A single specimen of this fish was obtained in the fish-market at 

 Funchal and is now in the British Museum. It may be readily dis- 

 tinguished from the known species of this genus by the number of 

 its anal rays. 



millim. 



Length of fish without the caudal 130 



Height at root of pectoral 21 



Height of tail at base of caudal 7 



Thickness at the shoulder 8 or 9 



Head, length 25 mm., thickness 8 



Eye, diameter 5 



Dorsal fin, length of base 11 



Pectorals, length 20 



Pectorals, distance of root from snout . . 30 



Veutrals, length 14 



Ventrals, distance of root from snout. ... 66 

 Anal, length of base 41 



