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PISCES. 
depressed, scaleless, opening of mouth slightly oblique, and with upper 
jaw longer ; eyes lateral, somewhat directed upwards, scales small, 
ctenoid ; villiform teeth in both jaws and on vomer ; two separate 
dorsals, the first with 3 small but sharp spines, of which the third is 
largest ; each with a small posterior membrane to prevent the spine 
from rising to the vertical ; vontrals jugular, pectoral rays branched, 
opening of gills large ; operculum and prajoperculum entire, 6 branchio- 
stegals, lateral line continuous. fosteri, sp. n., Haast, Tr. N. Z. Inst. vi. 
p. 103, pi. xviii. fig. 38, Otira River. 
^ Kaihetostoma monopterygium ^ Gthr. Having found that two species 
have been confounded under this name, Hutton separates them as, 1, 
KK{Uranosc^us) maculosa, Sol. {U.m^ulatus, Rich. & Forster); 2, 
K. (^Anemafmonopterygium, Gthr. (£/'. maculatus, J. R. Forster, apud 
Schn.) ; Tr. lust. vi. pp. 104 & 105. 
Leptoscopus*^(?) angusticeps, sp. n^. Hutton, tom. cit. p. 106, pi. xix. 
fig. 36, Greymouth Lagoon ; and L. macropygus, Rich. , re-described [cf. 
Ann. N. H. xu^872, p. 401]. 
Leptoscopus robsoni, sp. n.. Hector, L c. vii. p. 248, Cape Campbell. 
Opisthognathus.^^\&Q^Q.v, Arch. N6erl. ix., “Sur les especes insulin- 
diennes des Opisthognathoides,’^ re-describes and figures, 0. castelnaui, 
Blkr., p. 469, fig. 4; O.^olorensis, Blkr. p. 471, fig. % \^Gnathypops 
papuensis, Blkr., p. 473, fig. 2 ; and G. ^rosenhergi, Blkr., p. 474, 
fig. 1. 
Notothenia veitchi, sp. n., Gunther, Ann. N. H. (4) xiv. p. 370, Chonos 
Archipelago. 
COTTIDiE. 
Rhamplwcottus, g. n. (Cottid). Head exceedingly large, compressed, 
snout produced into a short narrow beak, the feeble lower jaw received 
within the upper ; eyes lateral ; body small, compressed, covered with 
prickles ; 2 dorsal fins of moderate height, pectorals with nearly all the 
rays simple ; ventrals thoracic, 3-rayed ; jaws and vomer with villiform 
teeth;, no teeth on the palate. ‘ R. richardsoni, sp. n., Gunther, tom. 
cit. p. 369, Fort Rupert, N. America. 
^ Cottus spinulosus, Kessler, figured by Kessler in Fedchenko’s Turkestan 
Journey, ii. pt. 6, p. 4, pi. i. figs. 1 & 2. ^ 
'^ Cottus hexacornis, Rich. (? C. scorpius, Fabr.), obtained at Broer- 
Ruys, and C. porosus, C. V., from Clavering’s Straits, noticed by Peters, 
Zweite Deut^he Kordpolarfahrt, pp. 169 & 170. 
Uranidea ' tvheeleri, sp. n.. Cope, Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. xiv. p. 138, 
Beaver River. 
Polycaulus elongatus, C. V., re-characterized and figured ; Bleeker, Verh. 
Holl. Maatsch. (3) ii. No. 3, p. 124, pi. ii. fig. 2. 
Platycephalus cultellatus, Rich., re-described from Chefoo ; Giinthcr, 
Ann. N. H. (4) xiii. p. 166. , 
' Parabembras, g. n.,for Bembras curtus, Schl.’; Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amst. 
(2) viii. p. 370. 
