BY J. DOUGLAS-OGILBY. 447 



Pempiieris LINEATUS. 



sp 



B. VII. D. 5/12. A. 3/35. V. 1/5. P. 17. C. 17. L. lat. 58. 



Length of head 4,'„ of caudal fin 4,}, height of body below first 

 dorsal spine 2f|j in the total lengtli. Eyes very large and promi- 

 nent, diameter of each 1 of the length of head. Snout short, '1 of 

 diameter of eye, its profile concave. Interorbital space rather 

 convex, ^ of diameter of eye ; jaws equal when closed ; cleft of 

 moutli oblique ; maxillary reaches to behind middle of eye. A 

 moderately strong spine, with a pair of smaller ones on either side, 

 at the pre-opei'cular angle. Both jaws with narrow bands of 

 villiform teeth, the outer row of which is enlarged ; a few much 

 stronger teeth, on either side of the symphyses, and pointing 

 directly forwards ; narrow bands on the palatines, and an obtusely- 

 angular band on the vomer. Dorsal spines weak, the last the 

 longest, not nearly so long as the anterior rays, and equal to the 

 distance between the tip of the snout and the hind margin of the 

 eye : anal commences beneath the 9th dorsal ray ; its rays are 

 longest anteriorly. The pectoral fin is scarcely the length of the 

 head. Ventrals reach to beyond the origin of the anal fin : caudal 

 foi-ked. Scales of the body moderate ; those of the head, and back 

 to the origin of the dorsal, small ; anal and caudal scaly. Lateral 

 line with an upward curve to beneath the dorsal spines, whence it 

 runs straight with a downward slant to the fork of the caudal. 



Bright golden-brown washed with purplish-bronze ; nine lighter- 

 colored longitudinal narrow bands on the sides, parallel to the 

 lateral line. 



A single specimen measuring 7i inches, trawled on Shark Reef 

 dui-ing the month of July forms the type of this handsome and very 

 distinct species. Registered number in the Australian Museum 

 collection, B. 7,334. 



