70 RECORns OF the S.A. Museum 



RHYCHERUS Ogilby. 



Rliychcnts ( )gilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Old., xx, 1907, p. 17. AIcCullocli, Mem. 



Qld. Mus., V, 1916, p. 68. 



Skin without spines, but more or less thickly covered with fleshv tubercles 

 and tentacles or cutaneous ajipendages. which also extend on to the fins : teeth 

 rather large, cardiforni. and dej^ressible ; they are arranged in se\'eral rows 

 anteriorly, and become biserial laterally in each jaw ; they form two groups on 

 the vomer: palatine and lingual teeth also present: nostrils in a raised protuber- 

 ance: dorsal spines separate, the first with a slender, naked rod; second and third 

 largely free, mobile, and covered with skin and numerous tentacles : soft dorsal 

 high, with about thirteen rays; anal opposite the end of the dorsal, with about 

 eight rays ; posterior dorsal and anal rays well separated from the caudal, leaving 

 the peduncle free : gill-opening a simple pore below the middle of the pseudo- 

 brachiuni : nutcigerous system not exident, hidden by the dermal tentacles. 



'J^ypc. R. wildil Ogilby ( R. filamcntosns Castelnau). 



RHYCHERUS FILAMENTOSUS Castelnau. 



Chinmcctcs filaiuciitcsus Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. \'ict., i, \'^J2. p. 244, and ii, 



1X73. p. (13. 

 Autctinariiis filainciitcsiis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, v, i88t, p. 579. 

 Cliironcctcs bifurcatiis McCoy, Prodr. Zool. \'ict., Dec. xiii, 1886, pi. cxxiii. 



Pucas, Proc. l\oy. Soc. \'ict. (2} ii, 1890, p. zj. 

 Ri'iyclicms hifurcatus Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xx, 1907, p. 19. 

 Rhychcnts i^'Udii Ogilby. Loc. cit.. p. 18. 

 Rlivclirnis filaiuciitosiis McCulloch, Mem. Old. Mus., \-, 1916. p. 68. 



Plate \i. fig. 3, and text figure 31. 



Descrii)tion of two sijccimens 127 and i(')2 mm. long. 



n.i. i, i. 13: .\.8: P. 11 ; \'.; : C.9. 



Depth I -4-1 7 in the length to the hypural joint; head 2 7-2 -8 in the same: 

 Inilge of the eye equal to the length of the snout, which is 4'6-4'S in the head; 

 first and third siiines subequ;il in length, and about as long as the highest rays; 

 second spine shorter than, or as long as. the others: median anal rays not so high 

 as those of the dorsal : caudal fin e(|ual to or slightly longer than the head. 



I'ody deep and r.-ilhcr thick, the liack elevated anteriorh' ; head deeper than 

 long: mouth sub\ertical ; m;ixillarv expanded posteriorlv, and reaching backward 

 to below the hinder jiorlion of the eye: eye small, rounded, and projecting; cheek 

 deeply hollowed below it: nostrils superolateral, and opening into a raised pro- 

 tuberance: skin quite unarmed, but thickly covered v\'ith rounded, fleshy tubercles, 

 froni which ari'-e cvlindrical tentacles of \arving lengths, and which are more or 



