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DESCRIPTION OF FIVE NEW FISHES FROM THE 

 AUSTRALASIAN REGION. 



By J. Douglas Ogilby. 

 (Commimicated by Edgar R. Waite, F. L.S.J 

 In the following paper I have given descriptions of five species 

 supposed to be new to science, two {Gillichthys australis, and 

 Clinus whiteleggii) being from the coast of New South Wales, and 

 one each from Queensland {Ophioclinus devisi), Lord Howe 

 Island (Petroscirles icelii), and New Zealand (Eleotris huttoni). 



Gillichthys australis, sp.nov. 



B. vi. D. 6. 1/7. A. 1/6. V. 1/.5. P. U. C. 12. L. lat. 28. 

 L. tr. 8. 



Length of head 3|, height of body 4f in the total length ; 

 height of head If^y, width of head 2i in its length. Eye 

 moderate, lateral ; its diameter 4 J in the length of the 

 head ; snout obtusely I'ounded, its length three-fourths, inter- 

 orbital space half the diameter of the eje. Lower jaw the 

 longer ; cleft of mouth large and oblique, the maxilla 

 extending to one diameter of the eye behind the eye. Upper 

 profile of head abruptly convex. A pair of large open pores about 

 the middle of the interorbital space. A pair of small canines in 

 front of each jaw. Dorsals subeqaal in height, separated by a 

 moderate interspace, the distance between the base of the last 

 spine and the origin of the soft dorsal equal to the base of the 

 dorsal spines ; all the spines more or less produced, the anterior 

 the highest, not quite so high as the body : anal papilla small ; the 

 anal commences beneath the third and ends beneath the last dorsal 

 ray ; its fifth ray is the longest, and exceeds in height the dorsal 

 rays : ventral reaching to the vent : pectoral rather pointed, 

 reaching to the vertical from the origin of the anal, its length 11- 



