1298 NBW GENERA AND SPECIES OF FISHES, 



apparently not found out at sea. The description is taken from 

 eight specimens captured by the seine near the mouth of George's 

 River, in July; they measured from 225 to 320 millimeters, and 

 were in excellent condition for the table. None of them showed 

 any symptoms of spawning except the largest, and this was fully 

 distended with ova, which would have been shed at an early date. 

 Numerous young flounders, from 50 to 100 millimeters in length, 

 were brought ashore by the net at the same time, but were care- 

 fully returned by the fishermen to their native element. 



Australian writers have confounded this species with Pseudo- 

 rhmnbus miiltinaculatiot, Giinther, from which, however, it differs 

 in having larger scales, a constantly shallower body and shorter 

 head, a projecting upper jaw, longer and almost naked maxillary, 

 cuneiform caudal, and very short, stout, blunt gill-rakers. With 

 the two other Australian species, Paralichthys arsiits and P. 

 mneUeri, it cannot possibly be confounded. 



INCERT^ SEDIS. 



Creedia, gen.nov. 



Body elongate and compressed. Scales large, cycloid, ad- 

 herent. Lateral line composed of a series of free, curved scales, 

 arranged so that the tip of each scale touches the outer curve of 

 the succeeding one, leaving an open space between it and the 

 body. Head moderate, conical, with long, pointed, overhanging 

 snout, naked. Mouth with wide, oblique cleft. Premaxillaries 

 protractile, broad anteriorly, forming the entire margin of the 

 upper jaw; maxillaries well develoj^ed, distinct from the premaxil- 

 laries. Lower jaw with two series of small, conical teeth, the 

 rest of the mouth toothless. Gill-openings wide; gill-membranes 

 separate, free from the isthmus; seven branchiostegals. Dorsal 

 fin posterior, with 1 2 articulated rays; anal much longer than 

 the dorsal, with 26 rays; ventrals inserted somewhat in advance 

 of the pectorals, close together, with 5 soft rays ; pectorals pointed, 

 with 12 rays, the upper the longest ; caudal rounded. 



