NOTES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



ON AN UNDESCRIBED SCIjENA FROM THE NEW 

 SOUTH WALES COAST. 



By E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., and J. Douglas-Ogilby. 



SCLENA NEGLECTA, Sp. nOV. 



B. VII. : D. 10. 1/27-28 : A. 2/7 : V. 1/5 : P. 17-18 : C. 17-18r 

 L. 1. 51-54 : L. tr. 9/21 : Coec. pyl. 8 : Vert, 11/13. 



Length of head from 4-10 to 4 -50, of caudal fin from 6*00 to 

 6-33, height of body from 4-40 to 540 in the total length. The 

 length of the head is exactly three-fourths of the distance between 

 the anus and the root of the middle caudal ray. Eye — Diameter 

 from 5-10 to 5*50 in the length of the head, from 1-25 to 160 in 

 that of the snout, and from 1*00 to 1*30 in the interorbital space, 

 which is slightly convex. Snout a little obtuse, slightly overhang- 

 ing the mandible ; upper part of head straight ; maxilla reaches 

 to beneath posterior margin of eye. Preopercle weakly serrated 

 on the vertical and anterior half of its horizontal limb, the serra- 

 tions strongest at the angle. Two flattened opercular spines. 

 Teeth — Upper jaw with a row of strong curved teeth, distant one 

 from the other, behind which is a band of villiform teeth, broadest 

 in front ; lower jaw with a row of similar but much smaller teeth, 

 between each of which are irregularly scattered several small 

 conical ones. Fins — Dorsal spines weak, the third and fourth the 

 longest, from 2*20 to 2*40 in the length of the head. Anal com- 

 mences beneath the twelfth ray of the second dorsal. Pectoral 

 about five-sevenths of the length of the head. Ventral rather 



