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6. COEEMATODUS. 



Corematodus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 918. 



Body short ; scales cycloid. Jaws with extremely broad bands 

 of innumerable minute club-shaped teeth with compressed oblique 

 entire crowns. Dorsal with 16 spiues, anal with 3. Vertebrae 32 

 (15 + 17). 



A single species. 



1. COEEMATODUS SHIEANTJS. 



Corematochis shiranus, Bouleng. op. cit. p. 919, cum fig. 



Depth of body equal to length ol: head, g total length. Snout 

 very broad, with steep, convex profile ; eye a Uttle nearer gill- 

 opening than end of snout, its diameter 4| times in length of head, 

 twice in interorbital width, and greater than depth of prseorbital : 

 maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye ; cheek with 

 4 rows of scales below the eye ; opercle and interorbital region 

 scaleless ; limbs of praeopercle forming a right angle. GiU-rakers 

 moderately long, 12 on lower part of anterior arch, last bifid. 

 Dorsal XYI 10 ; spiues increasing in length to the last, which is 

 f length of head. Anal III 8 ; third spine longest, as long as but 

 thicker than middle dorsals. Caudal peduncle li as long as deep. 

 Scales slightly rugose, not denticulate, 34 ^ ; lat. 1. -,. Body \nth 

 traces of six black cross-bars. 



Total length 200 millim. 



Upper Shire River. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIX. 



Fig. L Pehtmtookrmnis welwitscM'B\gr., p. 149. la. Jaws, X 3. 

 Fig. 2. Ckroniidotilupia Idngdeya Blgr., p. 151. 2 a. Jaws, x 3. 2i. Gill- 

 cbamber, seen from below the opercle, X 2. 



3. The Myology of the Terrestrial Carnivora. — Part II. 

 By B. C. A. WiNDLE, M.A., M.D., D.Sc., Professor of 

 Anatomy at Mason University College, Birmingham, 

 and F. G. Parsons, P.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lectru-er 

 on Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, 

 and Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of 

 Surgeons. 



[Eeceived February 3, 1898.] 



The first part of this paper was read before this Society on 

 April 6th last year (see P. Z. S. 1897, p. 370) ; it contained an 

 account of the muscles of the head, neck, and fore-limb. The 

 present part contains a description of the muscles of the hind- 

 limb and trimk. As we have been able to dissect some additional 



