386 THE PEOCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



place aurantiacus and Macleayi with any yet described, but the 



specimens ought to be compared with nasutus and roseus of 



Gunther. 



Cristiceps aurantiacus. 



Body elongate, its height contained four times and a half in 

 the total length without the caudal fin ; head not quite four 

 times in the same ; forehead concave ; snout longer than the eye ; 

 the lower jaw longer than the upper ; a fringed tentacle on the 

 nostril and one over the orbit ; the first dorsal nearly as high as 

 the body, and placed in front- of the eye ; the first spine being the 

 longest, the third being one-third shorter ; the second dorsal much 

 lower, consists of twenty-nine spines, and seven rays ; the tail is 

 long and narrow ; the caudal is long, pointed, and formed of nine 

 long rays ; the anal, like the dorsal does not reach the base of 

 the caudal, it is formed of two short spines, and twenty-four 

 rays ; the pectorals are large and formed of ten strong fleshy 

 simple rays ; the ventrals, of three similar ones. 



The fish is of a beautiful orange colour, with the fins of a fine 

 yellow; the specimen is eight and a half inches long, and was 

 found at Kiama by Mr. Duboulay, it is also found at Sydney. 



N.B. — This species comes very near my Gristiceps splendens, 

 but differs, by the first dorsal being placed in front of the eye ; 

 by the space between the two dorsals being only equal to the 

 length of the first of these fins ; and by the second dorsal being 

 placed more forward, its third spine being in a line vertical to the 

 end of the operculum. 



I find this fish in the Sydney museum under the name of 

 Australis, Guv. 8f Vol., but the figure given by those naturalists 

 (pi. 336) can in no possible manner apply to aurantiacus. 



Teuthis Javds. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. Vol. L, p. 507. 



Of a blackish grey ; lower parts of a pearly blueish white, the 

 small round spots on the back of a light blue ; fins of an olive 

 colour, though slightly marbled with brown. 



MUGIL GRANDIS. 



General form high, the profile strongly convex ; an adipose 



