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“TERRA NOVA” EXPEDITION. 
Snout twice as long as longitudinal diameter of eye with spiracle ; interorbital width 
equal to transverse diameter of eye. Internasal width less than } praeoral length of 
snout, less than distance of either nostral from edge of disc. Teeth obtuse, close-set ; 
about 40 series in upper jaw, which has a median emargination. Disc smooth below, 
above with scattered spines with radiating bases, set more closely near the anterior 
and posterior margins ; a series of spines at inner margin of each orbit; a triangular 
patch on scapulary region ; tail with three series posteriorly, five anteriorly, continued 
forward on the disc as two only ; two spmes between the well-separated dorsal fins. 
Brownish, with scattered darker and paler spots. 
A single specimen, a young female, 220 mm. in total leneth. In the spimation 
and in the separation of the dorsal fins this species is nearer to the Chilean one 
deseribed by Garman from an adult male as Malacorhina mirus than to Psammobatis 
rudis, Giinth. Malacorhina seems to be a synonym of Psammobatis, and the adult male 
of Ps. cirrifer may have the anterior margins of the dise notched as in Ps. mirus ; 
similar differences in form due to sex and age are known in feaia fyllae, Liitken. 
MURAENIDAE. 
2. Muraena ocellata, Agass. 
CONGRIDAE. 
3. Congromuraena balearica, Delaroche. 
SYNODONTIDAE. 
4. Trachinocephalus myops, Forst. 
SYNGNATHIDAE. = 
5. Hippocampus punctulatus, Guichen. 
SERRANIDAE. 
6. Serranus auriga, Cuv. and Val. 
TRIGLIDAE, 
7. Prionotus brachychir, Regan (Pl. xt, fig. 1). 
Prionotus brachychir, Regan, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xu, 1914, p, 16. 
Depth of body about 335 in the length, length of head (without opercular spine) 
23 to 3. Diameter of eye nearly equal to length of snout or postorbital part of head ; 
interobital space a little concave, its width ? diameter of eye. Maxillary extending to 
below anterior } of eye. Opercular and praeopercular spines strong ; no other spines 
on head; a short cleithral spme; 10 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. 50 to 
60 scales in a lateral series, 45 to 50 in lateral line; chest naked. Dorsal vui—xt, 
