218 NEW OR RARE FISHES, 



the locality of the type of TeutJiis australis, Gray, includes it in 

 his "Catalogue of Australian Fishes " (p. 161) as from the west 

 coast of Australia. It is also recorded as far south as New 

 Zealand, and I now include it as a member of the fauna of New 

 South Wales, an example having been obtained at Maroubra by 

 Mr. Whitelegge, who observed it swimming in a rock-pool and 

 obtained it by baling out the water. 



PSENES WHITELEGGII, Sp.nOV. 

 (PI. XVII. fig. 1.) 



B. vi., D. lliV A. ^\, V. i, P. 18, C. 18, L. lat. oh. Length of 

 head 3-6, of caudal i — 4-48, height of body 3-24 in the total length. 

 Diameter of eye 2-9 in length of head, half a diameter from the 

 end of snout and less than a diameter apart. Dorsal profile 

 elevated and bulging above the nostrils. Abdominal profile not 

 so convex, body compressed, jaws equal, maxilla reaching to just 

 witliin the anterior maigin of the eye. Teeth in a single series, 

 small, palate toothless, preopercle and opercle scaly. 



The dorsal fin commences above the hinder edge of the opercle, 

 3rd and 4th spines longest and equal, nearly half the length of the 

 head and higher than the soft dorsal, to which the anal is similar 

 both as to relative position and extent. Pectorals long, reaching 

 slightly beyond the anal and as long as the head, less the snout. 

 Ventrals reach slightly beyond the vent. Caudal deeply forked. 



Scales cycloid, moderate, and adherent. Lateral line continuous 

 following the dorsal curvature as far as the 48th pore, where it 

 bends horizontally to the caudal. A second and very distinct 

 line, but without pores, runs straight from the opercle to the 

 caudal. 



Ground colour delicate salmon, crossed by 3 brownish transverse 

 bands, the first very broad, extending from the head to the vent ; 

 the second much narrower, connecting the dorsal and anal rays, 

 and the third narrow, at the base of the caudal : these bands are 

 not equally defined in all the examples. Above the head brown ; 



