BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 407 



I think that a fish m my Museum, taken in Port Jackson is 

 this sj)ecies. Dr. Gunther when he described, it was not acquainted 

 with its ''habitat." 



230. Pachymetopon SQUAMOSirNr, All. & Macl. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 275, pi. 9, fig. 1. 

 Torres Straits, South Coast of New Guinea. 



Genus Girella, Gray. 



Incisors generally tricuspid. Cheeks scaly ; opercles naked, 

 except the upper angle of the operculum. Dorsal spines can be 

 received into a rather incomplete groove. Scales moderate. Six 

 branchiostegals. Pyloric a]ppendages in great number; air- 

 bladder divided into two posterior horns. 



Chinese and Australian Seas. 



231. Girella tricuspid ata, Cuv. & Yal. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 428. — Eichards, Ereb. and Terr., Fishes, 



p. 36, pi. 25, f. 2. 



'' Black Fish " of the Sydney Fishermen. 



D. 15/11-12. A.3/11 12. L.lat.50. L. transv. 10/20. Vert. 11/16. 



The length of the head is four times and two-thirds in the 

 total length ; dorsal fin moderately high, the spinous portion 

 lower than the soft, the incisors three-pointed, moderately broad, 

 imbricate, in several series in the upper, in two in the lower jaw. 

 Uniform brownish. 



Port Jackson, Victorian and New South Wales Coasts. 



232. Girella simplex, Eichards. 



Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Fish., p. 25.— Gunth. Cat. Fishes, I., p. 429. 



D. 15-14/12-13. A. 3/12. L. lat. 55. L trans. 11/20. 



The length of the head is one-fiftli of the total length ; dorsal 



fin of moderate height, the spinous portion about as high as the 



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