170 MR. W. R. O. GRANT ON THE [Mar. 4, 



sizes and shapes, and in irregular series. The diameter of the eye 

 is one fourth of the length of the head, and about one half the 

 interorbital space. The length of the caudal is less than the length 

 of the head. Dorsal spines filiform, and projecting beyond the 

 membrane. Colours brownish, with eight or nine rings of a darker 

 tint surrounding the body and wider than the ground-colour ; fins 

 dark, especially at the edges. 



The largest specimen measures 3 inches {Day). 



Hah. South Canara. 



24. SlCYDIUM PARVIPINNE, Guich. 



Cotylopus parvipinnis, Guich., in Maillard, Notes sur l'lle de la 

 Reuniou, ii. Add. C, p. 11. 



D. 7 i. A.i. 



Horizontal teeth inconspicuous. 



The height of the body is contained five and three quarter times 

 in the total length (without the caudal). Belly naked. The dia- 

 meter of the eye is more than one fifth of the length of the head, 

 and is one half the interorbital space ; maxilla does not extend to 

 the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye. The length of the 

 pectoral is equal to the length of the head, and less than that of the 

 caudal, which is one sixth of the total length. The second dorsal is 

 about as high as the body ; its rays extend above the membrane, 

 the last being slightly produced into a point. Colour pale yellow, 

 greyish on the belly ; each scale with a brown border and a black 

 central spot ; dorsal and anal fins yellow, spotted with brown, the 

 latter also with a black marginal band ; pectoral yellow, brownish 

 towards the extremity ; caudal brownish yellow. 



Total length 4|- inches (Guich.). 



Hub. Bourbon. 



Lentipes, Gthr. 



Sicyogaster, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1 860, p. 1 02 (non 

 Barnw.). 



Lentipes, Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 96 ; Bleeker, Arch. Ne'erl. ix. 

 p. 314 ; et Versl. Ak. Amst. (2) ix. p. 271 ; Giinth. Fische der 

 Siidsee, p. 184 ; et Challenger Shore Fish. p. 61. 



Body subcylindrical, naked, or with the posterior part covered 

 with cycloid scales. Head oblong broad and depressed, with the 

 cleft of the mouth horizontal, or very nearly so. Jaws subequal ; 

 snout obtusely rounded ; lips not very thick, the lower with a series 

 of numerous, short, pointed, horizontal teeth. A single series of 

 fixed teeth in both jaws ; the anterior ones in the upper jaw are 

 closely set and tricuspid, anchylosed to groove on the superior surface 

 of the maxilla, those more remote and those in the lower jaw 

 widely set, simple and conical. Behind the tricuspid teeth in the 

 upper jaw, lie several series of young teeth hidden in the gum, 

 which succeed the former teeth as they become worn out or broken. 

 Eyes of moderate size. Two dorsals, the anterior with six flexible 



