SOME NEW PEDIOULATE FISHES. By J. DOUGLAS OGFLBY [Bead before the Royal Society of Queensland 2nd April, 1906.] RHYCHERUS, gen. nov. Form robust ; body compressed, elevated in front, rapidly tapering behind. Head large, as deep as long. Skin smooth, densely clothed with cutaneous appendages. Mouth protractile. with moderate subvertical cleft ; maxillary thin and flexible, remiform, extending well beyond cleft of mounth. Jaws, vomer, and palatines with small cardiform teeth ; tongue smooth. Eyes moder-ate; infraorbital groove deep and naked. Gill-opening forming a simple longitudinal slit on the lower edge of the pseudobrachium some distance in advance of the fin. All the fins with numerous appendages : dorsal spines well de-veloped, erect, mobile free ; rostral spine slender, rising directly from the tip of the snout, and terminating in a bi-fid tentacle ; frontal and occipital spines stouter than but as flexible as the rostral, widely separated, with a deep naked fossa intervening, the latter inserted ar behind the eye : second dorsal with 13 rays, most of which terminate in a long filament : anal fin with 8 simple rays, inserted below the terminal third of and far overlapping the soft dorsal : caudal fin rounded, with 9 rays, all except the outer pair branched ; caudal peduncle free : pseudobrachium immobile, firmly fixed to the side by the enveloping cuticle, pectoral fin large and rounded, with 10 simple rays, extending, when appressed, to the origin of the anal : ventrals small and rounded, with 5 simple rays. (pv^vpo^, ragged : in allusion to its shaggy appearance due to the crowded cutaneous appendages). Southern Shores of Australia (Victoria and South Australia). Two species. This genus forms a connecting n
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