BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 91 



tongue edentulous. Nostrils approximate, pierced in a deep 

 depression in front of the eye. Eyes verj' large, supero-lateral. 

 Opercle with a feeble spine, which does not pierce the skin and 

 with the border sei-rated. Gill-openings wide, extending forwards 

 to below the angle of the mouth; isthmus wide; six branchios- 

 tegals ; gill-rakers in small numl^ers, distant, serrulate. Dorsal 

 fins two, the first well developed, with ten rays ; second dorsal 

 and anal fins long and low, the latter the longer and originating 

 below the middle of the dorsal interspace, separated from the 

 caudal b}' a short intersj^ace : ventral fins widely separated, 

 inserted but a short distance behind the isthmus, and consisting 

 of five slender rays standing upon a narrow base : pectorals well 

 developed, pointed, composed of twentj^-five slender, simple rays : 

 tail homocercal, the caudal fin narrow. Scales of moderate size, 

 cycloid, and imbricate ;* vertical fins ajaparently enveloped in 

 great part in thick skin. 



Etymology. — Aiisfer, south; Phycis. 



Distributio n. — Coast of New South Wales; Maroubra Bay. 



This genus is allied to Phi/siculus, but the character of the 

 dentition, the armature of the opercle, and the anterior origin of 

 the anal fin afford valid grounds for the formation of a new genus 

 as here proposed. 



AUSTROPHYCIS MEGALOPS, sp.nov. 



D. 10, 45. A. 49. 



Body moderately elongate and strongly compressed, not attenu- 

 ated posteriorly. Head large and tetrahedral, its length 41, the 

 depth of the body 6 in the total length; depth of the head li, 

 width of the head 1-"^^, of the interorbital region 4i, diameter of 

 the eye 2^ in the length of the head; snout short and Ijlunt, with 

 the upper profile concave owing to the prominence of the supra- 

 orbital region, its length about two-thirds of the diameter of the 



* Owing to the bad state of the specimen, onlj' a few scattered scales 

 remain in situ. 



