78 Annals of the South African Museum. 



longest, J to | length of head and slightly more than the distance 

 between anterior nostril and angle of preoperculum. Pectorals 

 11 + 8, 1 to 1^ length of head, reaching to the vertical from 6th or 

 7th ray of dorsal. Ventrals f to 1- length of head. Anal 16, similar 

 to soft dorsal. Caudal ernarginate or slightly forked, T 7 ^ to f length 

 of head. Scales very small, cycloid. Twenty-four to 25 spines along 

 the base of dorsal fin. Lat. 1. 70-74, without armature, 



Colour (of preserved specimens), greyish, darker above than below ; 

 pectorals blackish, with a few oval spots on the lower half. The 

 smallest specimen was of a uniform light green, the fins except the 

 pectorals being of a darker green ; the pectorals were blackish with 

 a few white spots. 



One specimen, 104 mm. in length, from Durban, Natal. 



Three specimens, procured by the Cape Government trawler 

 P. Faurc (s.) ; 1 of 234 mm. in length, from Inner Harbour, 

 Durban ; 1 of 238 mm. in length, caught in 40 fms., Tugela River 

 mouth N. by W.J W., 16 miles ; 1 of 254 mm. in length, caught in 

 46 fms., Tugela River mouth N. by W., 18 miles. 



TRIGLA PERONI, C. & V. 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv. p. 53, 1829. 



Teeth in narrow villiform bands on jaws and vomer. Depth of 

 body 5 times in total length excluding caudal, length of head 

 3^ times. Snout elongate, upper profile nearly straight, l- times 

 diameter of eye, which is 3f times in length of head and nearly 

 twice interorbital width; space between the orbits concave; pre- 

 orbital strongly striated and produced anteriorly into 2 broad 

 plates slightly projecting beyond snout, each with about 4 obtuse 

 points and some fine serrations, a keel or ridge extends along the 

 lower margin across preopercle to the angle of the latter where it is 

 toothed or roughened and ends in a sharp spine with a smaller 

 diverging spine below it ; opercle with a sharp spine ; a strong 

 sharp humeral spine ; suprascapula with a strong spine ; orbital 

 ridge strongly marked, with 2 strong spines at supero-anterior angle 

 of eye, the posterior angle bluntly produced and crenellated ; 

 maxillary reaches to vertical of anterior margin of eye. 



Dorsal ix 16 ; 1st spine smooth, about the same length as 2nd, 

 which is \ length of head and equals the distance between anterior 

 nostril and angle of preoperculum. Pectorals 114-3; \\ times 

 length of head and reaching to vertical from 7th ray of dorsal. 

 Ventrals about as long as head, reaching to anal. Anal 16, similar 



