20 Pisces. 
V 
Notothenia antarctica, Kerguelen's Land, and squainiceps^ Magellan 
Straits, Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1876, p. 837, spp. nn. 
^Notothenia maoriensis^ Haast, N. coriiceps V, Hutt., nec Rich., described, 
Hutton, 1. c. p. 212. 
Stigmatonotus^ g. n. (Pseudochr.). Body elliptical, moderately com- 
pressed ; mouth deeply cleft, praeoperculum toothed, operculum armed, 
suborbital unarmed, narrow, with large pores ; a band of small pointed 
teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones ; scales ctenoid, 
lateral line incomplete ; a long dorsal fin with fewer spines than rays ; 
anal spines 3, ventrals i, somewhat before the pectorals ; gill opening 
wide ; branchiostegals, 6 ; gills 3^ ; free thread-like pseudobranchiae ; 
lower pharyngeals separated. Type, S. australis^ sp. n. (D. ||, A. f, 
LI. 46) ; Peters, 1. c. p. 838, fig., Dirk-Hartog Island, W. Australia, in 
3 fath. 
MALACANTHlDiE. 
Malacanthus hoedti. Blkr., figured by Gunther, op. cit. pi. xcviii. B. 
BATRACUIDiR. 
f >/ V 
. Thalassophryne punctata^ p. 169, Bahia, amazonica^ and nattereri^ p. 161, 
Rio Negro and Amazon, Steindachner, 1. c. Ixxiv. spp. nn. 
Pkdiculati. 
^Antennarius marmoratus {A/lioderma, B^kr.), pi. c. A, hispidus, Bl., 
Schm. pi. xcix. a, stria^us, Sh., pi. xcix. B, higibbus, Lac., pi. cv. B, figured, 
and a series of figures of A. com^iersoni, p. 163, pis. c.-cvi., representing 
the very numerous nominal species which are found to be merely colourr 
varieties of this one ; Gunther, op. cit. 
CoTTlDiE. 
Blep.^ias cirrhosus, Pall., found at Puget Sound and San Francisco, 
V redescribed; Steindachher, SB. Ak, Wien, Ixxiv. p. 176. 
\ Nautichthys oculo-fasciatus. Gir., redescribed and figured ; id. 1. c. 
p. 178, pi. xiv. fig. 1. 
Liitken remarks that the sexual differences are perhaps greater 
and more frequent in this than' in any other family of fishes. In 
a preliminary notice of the Arctic and Boreal species, he gives an 
account of these variations in the case of each; Vid. Medd. 1876, 
pp. 355-387. 
V ICottus'] Phobetor ventralis, 0. V., has been described und^’ dif- 
ferent names, and is now found to have a vast circumpolar range. '^Cottus 
pistilliger, Pall., is referred to it, the ‘pistils’ described by Pallas being 
the spinous semi-cruciform scales of part of the sides in C. tricuspisd 
Reinh. Annelids were found in its stomach, as stated previously by 
Fabricius, and remarks are made on the differences of the sexes. 
Id. 1. c. pp. 363-366, and Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixxii. p. 613. 
