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ON TWO NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF FISHES 

 FROM AUSTRALIA. 



By J. Douglas Ogilby. 



( C ommunicatPAl by the Secretarij ). 



Percophid^. 



Centropercis, gen.nov. 



Branchiostegals (f) five ; pseud obranchife present. Body elongate- 

 oblong, compressed; head conical; cleft of mouth wide and mode- 

 rately oblique; lower jaw the longer; eye lateral, partially directed 

 upwards; gill-openings wide; gill-rakers stout, of moderate length, 

 few in number; bones of head armed or radiate. Jaws, vomer 

 and hyoid bones with well-developed, fixed teeth; palatine and 

 pterygoid bones edentulous. Two dorsal fins, the first with six 

 spines; the second more developed, similar to the anal; no semi- 

 detached spines in front of the anal; ventrals thoracic; all the 

 pectoral rays branched. Scales small, poriferous, those of the 

 head cycloid, of the body ctenoid; body with regularly arranged 

 series of naked bands. 



Centropercis nudivittis, sp.nov. 

 B. V. (?) D. 6 1/20. A. 1/17. V. 1/5. P. 13. C. 15. 



Length of head four and one-third, height of body six and 

 one-fourth in the total length; Avidtli of head two-thirds of its 

 height and two-fifths of its length. Diameter of eye four and 

 two-fifths in the length of the head: premaxilla trilobate, snout 

 emarginate, in front; the latter a little longer than the diameter 

 of the eye; interorbital space grooved, three-fifths of the diameter 



