BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 371 



Colours. — Head horn colour, lips black, throat and body sandy ; 

 a broad, irregular black band traverses the whole length of the 

 body, rather nearer to the dorsal than to the ventral surface ; 

 above the anal tin this band is crossed by five or six vertical 

 bars, which extend more or less distinctly on to the dorsal and 

 anal fins ; a black spot at the base of the caudal fin. Incisor 

 teeth in both jaws tipped with gold. 



The type specimen of this distinct species was brought from 

 Lord Howe Island by Mr. T. R. Icely, the visiting magistrate, 

 after whom I am pleased to be in a jjosition to name it. There 

 are three other examples from the same locality in the Australian 

 Museum Collection, all of which agree accurately with the type. 

 This species is closely allied to P. variabilis, Cantor. 



Length of type specimen 119 millimetres. 



Type in the Australian Museum, Sydney: 



Register number, I, 3127. 



Clinus whiteleggii, sp.nov. 



B. vi. D. 2/28/2. A. 2/20. V. 1/2. P. 10. C. 12. 



Length of head 44, height of body 6^^ in the total length. 

 Diameter of eye 3§ in the length of the head ; snout obtuse, 

 seven-eights, interorbital space concave, half of a diameter of 

 the eye. Jaws equal ; cleft of mouth very oblique, the 

 maxilla extending to beneath the middle of the orbit. Nasal 

 tentacle double, the outer and longer branch trifurcate ; orbital 

 tentacle small and triangular, with the basal portion slender. 

 Upper profile of head abruptly sloping. A row of stout curved 

 teeth and a symphyseal patch of smaller teeth in both jaws. The 

 dorsal fin commences above the hinder margin of the preopercle; 

 the second spine is widely separated from the first, and from the 

 third, with which it is connected Vjy a deeply notched membrane ; 

 the spines increase in height gradually to the last, which is five- 

 sixths of the height of the body and equal to the first ray ; last 

 ray separated by an interspace from the penultimate, its membrane 

 just reaching beyond the base of the caudal : the anal commences 



