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407. Leptoscopus macropygus, Eichards. 



Yoj. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., p. 55, j)!. 33, f. 4-6.— Gunth., 



Cat. Fishes II., p. 232. 



D. 31. A. 36. L. lat. 86 (43). 



The scales of the lateral line twice as large as those of the 

 adjoining series, each corresponding to two transverse series. The 

 upper half of the head and body olive, mottled with brown ; 

 lateral line brown. 



Port Jackson. 



Grroup B. Trachinina. 



Eye more or less lateral. Head not cuirassed. Lateral line 

 continuous. Intermaxillary without larger tooth on its posterior 

 portion. 



Genus Percis, B1. 



Body cylindrical, elongate ; cleft of mouth slightly oblique ; 

 eye lateral, directed upwards. Scales small, ctenoid. Dorsal 

 fins more or less contiguous, ventrals a little before the pectorals, 

 the lower rays branched. Villifom teeth and canines in the jaws, 

 teeth on the vomer, none on the palatines. Operculum with two 

 small spines, praeoperculum entire or slightly denticulated. Six 

 branchiostegals ; pseudobranchiae. No air-bladder ; pyloric 

 appendages in small number. 



Indian and Polynesian Seas. 



408. Percis nebulosa, Quoy. & Gaim. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes II., p. 237. 



D. 5/21-22. A. 19-20. L. lat. 85. Csec. pylor. 4. Vert. 10/20. 



The height of the body is five times and a-haK in the total 



length, the length of the head about four times ; the space between 



the eyes is greater than their diameter. On each side two rows 



of brown clouded spots, those above the lateral line being the 



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