of new south wales. 2g5 



8. — Serranus carinatus. 

 Plate IV. Fig. 3. 



Oblong. Height of body less than one-fourth of the total length. 

 Head, one-third of the same. Eye, four and a half times in the 

 length of the head, and larger than the space between the eyes. 

 Teeth fine. Intermaxillary very thin. Upper maxillary scarcely 

 reaching to the vertical from the middle of the eye. Prseoper- 

 culum irregularly denticulated, with a slight emargination above 

 the angle. Operculum with the spines acute. A prominent curved 

 ridge on the suboperculum near the angle of the prseopei*culum. 

 Caudal fin rounded. Pectoral fins reaching to the extremity of the 

 ventrals. Coloration in spirits pale, with large rounded or hexagonal 

 brown spots, which are continued of about the same size on the 

 dorsal fin, and of a less size on the caudal. The other fins are also 

 spotted, but more indistinctly. 



Two of this fish, eight inches long, were caught at Cape Grenville. 

 It seems to resemble a good deal Serranus ffoivlandi, Gunth., 

 Journ. Mus. Godeff. 3, p. 8, t. 9, f. B There are other Serrani in 

 the collection which we have been unable satisfactorily to deter- 

 mine, either from the specimens being injured or immature. 



9. — Plectropoma maculatum. 



Cuv. and Val. 2, p. 393, ; Bleek. Jav., p. 39, &c. 

 Bodianus maculatus, Bloch, t. 288, Lacep. 4, pp. 280-293. 

 Plectropoma punctatum, Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Freyc, Zool. 

 Poiss., p. 318, t. 45, f. 1. 



,, areolatum, Riipp. Atl., pp. 110-143. 



The only specimen was caught at Fair Cape. 



10. — GENYOROGE SEBiE. 



Diacope Sebce, Cuv. and Val. 2, p. 310. 



„ Siamensis, Cuv. and Val. 6, p. 524. 

 Mesoprion Sebce, Bleek. Perc. p. 45. 



