SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 
799 
B. vi, D. 21/4, P. 16, Y. 1/3, A. 10/4, 0. 17, L. 1. 40, L. tr. 14. 
Length, of head 4, of caudal fin 5, height of body 3 in the total length. Eyes — diameter 
1/5 of the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snont, and f of a diameter 
apart. Cleft of month somewhat oblique, the maxilla reaching posteriorly to beneath the 
hind third of the orbit. Two strong opercular spines. Teeth — ^in jaws, vomer, and palate. 
Fins—dorssl spines strong, the fins not united with the caudal: pectorals rounded: 
ventrals long and inserted slightly in front of the base of the pectoral : caudal rounded. 
Scales — cycloid. Lateral-line — absent. Colours — brownish-black with a milk-white band 
commencing on the front end of the dorsal fin, and extending to the snout : a white band 
over the free portion of the tail : a white spot at the base of the pectoral fin : one on either 
side of the base of the mandibles, one on the isthmus. ■ The posterior half of the ventral 
fin, also a ring round the vent, white : as well as the tip of the caudal fin. 
Hahitat. — Madras, where one example, an inch long’, was captured. 
Page 336. Add Genus — Ceisticeps, Ouv. and Val. 
Brancliiostegals six : psetidobrancMcs. Body elongate covered with small or rudimento.ry 
scales. Gill-opening wide. Cleft of motith of moderate width, snout short. Usually some 
tentacles on the head. Fine teeth on the jaws and vomer. Tivo separate dorsal fins, the 
anterior being composed of three spLies, the posterior zvith many rays, the majority of which 
are spines. Ventral jugular zvith one spine and two or three z-ays. Fyloric appendages 
absent. Viviparous. 
Habitat. — ^Mediterranean, Ceylou to the Malay Archipelago, coasts and rivers of Australia 
and Tasmania. 
B. vi, D. 3/V, P. 13, Y. i A. - 3 -V, C. 14. 
Length of head 4i, of caudal fin 7, height of body 4f in the total length. Eyes — 
4 diameters in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snout and nearly 
1 apart. A broad-fringed supraorbital tentacle and a short simple one on the snout. 
Teeth — fine in the jaws and on the vomer, none on the palatines or tongue. Fizis — first 
dorsal commences above a vertical line from the hind edge of the eye, and its spines are 
higher than the front ones in the second dorsal fin, it is not confluent with the candal. 
All the pectoral rays unbranched, anal commences below about the eighth spine of the 
second dorsal : anal with two spines fifteen unbranched and four divided rays. Caudal 
wedge-shaped. Scales — rudimentary. Latez'al-line — with a rather strong curve anteriorly. 
Colours — brownish-yellow with a white mark behind the lower half of the orbit, and 
some irregularly-shaped similar markings on the occiput and gill-covers, two more at 
the base of the pectoral fin, a row of about 12 below the base of the spinous dorsal fin, 
and two more badly developed rows along the sides of the body, of which the three 
largest are behind the pectoral fin and are longer than wide. 
Habitat. — Colombo, where it was obtained by Mr. Haly, who is doing such good work 
among the Ceylon fishes and after whom I have named the single specimen obtained, and 
which is figured life size. 
Page 337. Xiphasia setifee. Add synonyms. 
? Nemophis lessonii, Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 168. 
? Xiphogadus madagascaz'ezisis, Playfair, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 11. 
Xiphasia setifer, Bamsay and Ogilby, Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i, 1886, p. 582. 
B. vi, D. 128-129 (233 ?), P. 13, Y. 3, A. 115-116, C. 12. 
Length of head 16, of caudal fin 32 in the total length. Eyes — 3f in the length of the 
head, from -I to -f- of a diameter apart and 1 diameter from the end of the snout : upper 
profile of the head rounded. The upper jaw slightly the longer. Teeth — a single row of 
closely set, recurved, cardiform teeth in the lower jaw, and with a large lateral canine 
on either side, which is received into a groove in the roof of the mouth. Teeth in the 
upper jaw similar in size and number to those in the lower, except that the lateral 
