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IV. Descriptions of Six new Perciform FisJies from the Coast of 

 Natal By G. A. BOULENGER, F.E.S. 



MR. J. P. Q\JEKETT, Curator of the Durban Museum, has sent me 

 for identification a large series of fishes from the Coast of Natal. 

 The fishes from that coast have received but little attention, and it is 

 therefore not surprising that several specimens contained in the 

 Collection have proved to belong to undescribed species. I have 

 already described one,' 1; a Galeid Selachian, under the name of 

 Scylliogaleus queketti. Mr. Alex. Anderson, of Durban, who takes a 

 great interest in the fishes in which he deals, and who brought the 

 fishes over with him on a recent visit to England, informed me that 

 the specimens were mostly procured from deep water, about 40 

 fathoms. It so happens, however, that the little Dog-fish, which 

 I described as from that depth, was obtained from the rocks at the 

 Eiver Umkomaas, as I am now informed by Mr. Quekett. The 

 perciform fishes here described are probably all from deep water. 



The specimens here figured have been presented to the British 

 Museum, along with many others, by Mr. Quekett. 



DlNOPERCA QUEKETTI. (Plate II.) 



Depth of body 2| times in total length, length of head 3 times. 

 Upper profile of head descending in a nearly straight line ; lower jaw 

 projecting ; snout as long as or a little longer than the diameter of 

 the eye, which is 3^ to 4 times in length of head ; interorbital 

 width 4 times in length of head ; maxillary extending to below 

 the centre of the eye, the width of its distal extremity f to f 

 the diameter of the eye ; supram axillary bone narrow ; both jaws 

 with a broad band of minute villiform teeth and an outer series of 



* Ann. and Mag. N.H. (7) x. 1902, p. 51, pi. iv. 

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