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Agenor. 



Teetli villiform on both jaws with a series of sharp conical 

 pointed teeth on the vomer and palatines ; no molars ; cheeks 

 and opercles scaly ; vertical fins in great part covered with 

 scales ; dorsal fin not notched ; of ten spines ; scales rather 

 small, body high, compressed. 



This new genus belongs to the PristipomatidAe. 



Agenor modestus. 



The height of the body is contained once and three-fourths in 

 the total length, without the caudal fin ; the head is three times 

 and-a-half in the same ; and the diameter of the eye twice and 

 one-fourth in the length of the head ; the snout is not more 

 than one-half the diameter of the eye ; the lower jaw is a little 

 longer than the upper one ; the maxillary extends to the per- 

 pendicular from the anterior quarter of the eye ; the prseorbital 

 is finely serrated ; the head is entirely covered with scales except 

 on the snout ; the prgeopercle is finely serrated ; there is a feeble 

 spine on the opercle ; lateral line continued on the base of the 

 caudal fin ; the first dorsal spine is very small, the others gra- 

 dually increasing in length, the soft portion in a scaly sheath, 

 formed of twenty-six rays ; the caudal long, bifid, not complete 

 in my specimen ; the anal with three spines and twenty-six rays ; 

 the ventrals placed very near one another ; the body very 

 compressed. 



The fish is of a dark silvery colour, with the upper parts nearly 

 black ; the fins dark ; the pectorals rather yellow. 



The specimen is nearly four inches long. 



Upeneichthts porosus. 

 UpeneicJitJiys porosus ', Cuv. Val., vol. III., p. 455. 

 Also found at Melbourne ; known at Sydney under the name 

 of Pinkcheek. 



Entirely of a fine flesh orange colour ; streaks on the sides of 

 the head, orange ; a longitudinal dark stripe on the sides follow- 

 ing the line of the back ; end of the barbels and pectorals of a 

 fine sulphur colour. 



Not common ; February and May. 



