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7. Stigmatopliora Olivacea . — Cast. 
Snout at least twice as long as the remaining part of the 
head ; operculum without a longitudinal ridge ; vent below 
the middle of the dorsal fin ; egg-pouch extending over 
thirteen rings ; body rings, nineteen. Entirely of an olive 
colour. 
8. Aploactisoma. — Cast. 
This new genus is nearly allied to Richardson’s Aploactis, 
but differs from it by the presence of teeth on the palatine 
bones, and the composition of the fins. 
Aplo. Schomburgki. — Cast. 
1st D., 5 ; 2nd D., 8/15. Dark brown, marbled with black ; 
a spot of the last colour at the end of the dorsal. 
9. Patwcus Waterhousii. — Cast. 
The pectoral fin rather longer than the head, only extending 
to the anus ; dorsal with thirty spines, the first sensibly 
longer than the others, and with its membrane deeply 
emarginated ; caudal with the fifth, sixth, and seventh 
rays considerably prolongated ; anal with ten rays, the pos- 
terior ones being prolongated and pointed ; mouth surrounded 
by several series of bifid papillae. Brown, marbled with 
white. 
10. Apistes Marmoratus.—Cwf. and Val. 
11. Glyptauchen Panduratus. — Richard. 
12. Ghristiceps Splendens. — Cast. 
Upper profile very convex ; first dorsal high, of three rays ; 
the second of twenty-eight spines and six rays ; the anal has 
two spines and twenty-three rays. Carmine colour, with 
the head and fins orange. 
13. Ghironectes Filamentosus. — Cast. 
Comes near Marinoratus. On the head, a long, thin, tenta- 
culated spine, having on each side a slender, filiform, bifid 
tentacle ; on the back, there is another long spine, ending, 
like the other, in a tuberculous knob, and bearing tentacles. 
D., 13 ; A., 8. Light brown, with black blotches ; lower 
parts of the body covered with long fleshy appendices. 
