78 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



•spicuous, not neax'ly reaching to the edge of the pupil in front or 

 behind. Preorbital not so broad posteriorly as the pupil, with 

 the hinder half of the lower and the posterior borders serrated? 

 the former with a deep notch, the latter truncated. Gill-rakers 

 rather short and slender, about fifty on the lower branch of the 

 anterior arch. 



First dorsal tin inserted a little behind the middle of the body, 

 tlie distance between its origin and the base of the caudal being 

 eight-ninths of its distance from the extremity of the snout; the 

 spines are rather weak, the first straight, but little longer than 

 the second, and li in the length of the head; the third is not 

 much shorter than the second, and the bases of these thi'ee spines 

 are in contact, but not arranged in a straight line: the last spine 

 is inserted at some distance behind the others, is much more 

 feeble, and is but little more than half the length of the first; the 

 space between the origins of the two dorsal tins is equal in length 

 to the head; the first soft ray of the second dorsal is undivided 

 and not quite so long as the second, which is a little lower than 

 the first dorsal tin; the last ra}^ is somewhat produced, and the 

 outer border of the fin is moderately emarginate : the anal fin 

 commences well in advance of and does not extend quite so far 

 back as the second dorsal, the length of its base being a little less 

 than its distance from the caudal: the first ray is the longest and 

 branched, as long as the longest dorsal ray, and when laid back 

 does not extend to the tip of the last ray, which is considerably 

 produced, the outer border of the fin being rather deeply emar- 

 ginate; ventral fin moderate and slightly rounded, inserted a little 

 nearer to the origin of the anal than to the extremity of the 

 mandible, with a rather weak spine; the outer ray is a little the 

 longest, two-thirds of the length of the head, and half of the 

 distance between its origin and that of the anal fin : pectoral fin 

 pointed, with seventeen rays, the two outer ones simple; tlie 

 second ray is compressed and broader than the third, which is 

 the longest, the distance of its tip from the origin of the first 

 dorsal being two-fifths of the length of the fin, which is nine- 

 tenths of that of the head : caudal fin but little emarginate, with 



