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The absence of the third anal spine is peculiar. The fish is alsc 

 more elongate than is usual in the genus. 

 The specimens are three inches long. 



NEW GENUS G-ERREOMORPHA, 



Characters of Get- res, but with ten dorsal spines. 



34. — Gerreomorpha rostrata, 



Plate VIII. Fig. 3. 



D. -y, A. f, L. lat. about 45. 



Height of body one-third of the total length, of which the caudal 

 flu forms one-fourth. Head one-fourth the total length. Diameter 

 of orbit one-fourth the length of the head. First dorsal spine very 

 short, the second strong— -its length two and a half times in height 

 of the body. Scaly sheath of the fins large, middle rays of pectoral 

 fins elongate, reaching as far as the commencement of the anal. 

 Snout appearing prominent, owing to the head being much hollowed 

 out above and below. Colour brilliant silvery. Tips of dorsal and 

 caudal fins black. 



Only one specimen of this splendid fish was taken, and unfor- 

 tunately the exact locality of its capture was not noted, but it was 

 somewhere in Torres Straits. It is a very distinct and well marked 

 species. We have been compelled to establish a new genus for it, 

 for the single reason that the dorsal fin has ten spines, while one 

 of the generic characters assigned to Gerres is that the dorsal fin 

 has only nine spines. 



The specimen is fourteen inches in length. 



Family Mullid^e. 

 35. — Upeneus malabaricus. 



Cuv. and Val. 3, p. 467. 



Two specimens from Cape Grenville, from eleven to twelve 

 inches long. 



We make the dorsal formula to be 7|> not ^ as given by Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes. 



