FISHES. MCCULLOr M. 1 01. 



single row of small conical teeth on each side. An 

 angular patch of minute teeth on the vomer, and some 

 on the anterior portion of each palatine bone. 



Gill-membranes united across the isthmus, the gill- 

 opening extending forward to below the hinder margin 

 of the eye. Six branchiostegal rays. Gill-rakers rather 

 slender, about ten on the lower limb of the first gill- 

 arch, the length of those at the hinder angle equal to 

 rather more than one-fourth the diameter of the eye. 



Scales of the body ctenoid, except on the nuchal 

 region and the breast where they are cycloid. They 

 extend over the basal portion of the caudal, but leave all 

 the other fins naked. The lateral line rises abruptly 

 from the shoulder and extends backward parallel with 

 the back to below the twenty-first dorsal ray. The tubes 

 of the first portion are broad and simple, those of the 

 caudal peduncle more slender, and terminating in a 

 median notch in the margin of each scale. Three rows 

 of scales separate the anterior and posterior portions of 

 the lateral line, and the latter extends along the middle 

 of each side of the caudal peduncle to the hypural joint. 



Dorsal spines weak but pungent, increasing in length 

 backward, but the third much shorter than the anterior 

 ray. All the rays are branched, and they increase in 

 length backward to the nineteenth. The margin of the 

 fin is almost straight, rounded posteriorly, and the last 

 ray is divided to its base. Anal similar in construction 

 to the dorsal, its first spine microscopic. Pectoral broadly 

 rounded, the median rays longest. Ventrals inserted 

 slightly in advance of the vertical of the first dorsal spine, 

 the second rays are longest, but do not nearly reach the 

 vent when adpressed. Caudal rounded. 



Colour. Light yellowish-brown in formalin, e;ich 

 scale of the upper anterior portion of the sides with a 

 brownish spot, which, with its fellows, forms rows. A 

 faint light-coloured stripe along the middle of each side 

 of the body. Dorsal and anal fins dusky between the 

 rays, especially basally; the other fins hyaline. 



Described and figured from a specimen, 60 mm. long, 

 from off Cape Capricorn, Queensland. Another smaller 

 example from the same station, is similar in all details. 

 Four others, 48-60 mm. long, are considerably damaged; 



