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lines enclosing spots of the lighter ground colour. Mr. Waite 

 has examined these specimens with me and agrees that they 

 leave no doubt as to the identity of the two species. 



-A point worthy of consideration is the difference noted by 

 Waite in the number of scales on the lateral line as counted by 

 Ogilby and himself. I find that the lateral line may either 

 follow the curvature of the body in an even line or else pursue 

 an undulator}' and irregular course. Bearing this in mind, 

 together with the difficulty of counting the scales of these 

 fishes, the seeming discrepancy disappears. 



Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales 15-45 fathoms. 



Disaster Bay, New South Wales. 



Of¥ the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait. 



Family POMACENTRID.-E. 



Genus Chromis, Cuvier. 



Chromis hypsilepis, Gi'inther. 



Brown Puller. 



(Plate xiv.) 



Heliastes hypsilepis, GUnther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 

 1867, p. 66; id., Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 iii., 1879, p. 388; id., Klunzinger, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. 

 Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, p. 398; id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.Wales, vi., 1881, p. 71; id., Ogilby, Mem. 

 Austr. Mus., ii., 1889, p. 66. 

 Br. v. ; D. xiii. , 14 ; A. ii., 13 ; P. 20 ; \'. i., 5 ; C. 15 ; 1. lat. 

 20 ; Sc. 2"/. 



The height of the body is 2^ to 2^, the length of the head 

 3i ^^ Sh i" the length from the snout to the hypural. Eye 3 

 to 2f, caudal peduncle 2^ in the head. Snout two-thirds as 

 long as the eye. 



Body ovate, compressed, the dorsal profile a little more 

 arched than the ventral, and evenly curved from the snout to 

 the first dorsal spine. Margin of the preoperculum striated, 

 but smooth. Operculum ending in a single flat spine which 

 is almost hidden by scales. Preorbital not very broad, equal 

 to about one-third of the eye at its narrowest part. Inter- 

 orbital space strongly convex, equal to or somewhat wider 

 than the eye. Nostril round, a little nearer the eye than the 

 end of the snout. Maxillary reaching a little behind the 

 anterior margin of the eye; mouth small, oblique. Teeth 

 conical, acute and spaced, arranged in a band in front, but 

 gradually changing into a single series on the sides, the outer 

 teeth larger than the others. 



