BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 



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with, those of the body, but the upper pass those of the body by 

 one ring in a different plane. The dorsal fin stands upon five 

 body and two tail rings ; the pectorals are broad but short ; the 

 caudal is elongate and pointed, as long as the last five tail rings. 

 Colour (in spirits) uniform dark reddish brown. Length four 

 and a half inches. 



West Australia. (Macl. Mus.) 



Genus Stigmatopiiora, Kaup. 



Body depressed, with the ridges obsolete, those of the trunk 

 being continuous with those of the tail ; shields covered with 

 soft skin. Pectoral fin developed, caudal absent, the tail tapering 

 to a very fine point. Dorsal fin very long. Males with a caudal 

 pouch formed by cutaneous folds. 



Australia. 



965. Stigmatophora argus, Eichards. 



Trans. Zool. Soc. III., p. 183, pi. 7, fig. 2.— Gunth., Cat. Fishes, 



YIII., p. 189. 



D. 49-52. Osseous rings 20 + about 75. 



Snout very long, about twice as long as the remaining part of 

 the head. Operculum wiih a slight ridge in young examples, 

 nearly entirely disappearing in old. Vent below the middle of 

 the dorsal fin. Tail more than twice as long as the trunk ; egg- 

 pouch shorter than the trunk. Upper parts with numerous 

 small, black, white-edged ocelli, sometimes irregularly arranged, 

 sometimes forming longitudinal or transverse series. 



Tasmania. Port Jackson. 



966. Stigmatophora nigra, Kaup. 

 Gunth., Cat. Fishes, VIII., p. 190. 

 D. 39-40. Osseous rings 17 + about 72. 

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