228 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW FISHES FROM PORT JACKSON, 



The example from which 1 have taken the above description is a 

 female, and has the ova about half developed. It measures a 

 little over 13 inches, and was trawled in Port Jackson on the 25th 

 April. The stomach contained an Atherina jnnguis, 4 inches long, 

 among other irrecognisable matter. 



Type specimen in Australian Museum ; registered number B. 

 6,541. 



Percis nov^-cambri/E. sp. nov. 



B. VI. D. 4/24-25. A. 20. V. 1/5 P. 17. L. lat. 65. L. 

 trans. 3^/13. 



Length of head 4|-, of caudal fin 6_:, height of body 7| in the 

 total length. Diameter of eye about ^ of the length of the head, 

 equal to the length of the snout, and more than double the inter- 

 orbital space, which is flat. The greatest width of the head is 

 equal to its length behind the anterior margin of the orbit ; the 

 greatest height to half its length. Snout rather blunt ; cleft of 

 mouth slightly oblique ; lower jaw a little the longer ; maxillary 

 reaches to beyond the vertical from the middle of the eye. The 

 preoperculum is furnished with some coarse serrations on the hinder 

 limb, and especially at the angle ; these however, seem to disappear 

 with age. A single blunt opercular spine. The jaws are armed 

 with a broad band of villiform teeth, the outer row of which is 

 somewhat the larger; also with 4 or 5 strong curved canines on 

 each side of the symphyses, and a similar row at the posterior end 

 of each jaw, those in the lower being the strongest ; there is also a 

 lunate patch of villiform teeth on the vomer. Fourth dorsal spine 

 the longest, | of the diameter of eye ; the third but little shorter. 

 The pectoral is equal to I of the length of the head ; the ventral 

 which is not quite so long does not reach the vent. Caudal 

 rounded. 



Colors, (in spirits) above yellowish-brown, with very indistinct 

 darker marblings; head darker than body; sides and belly yellowish. 

 Seven large dark brown spots below the lateral line, and approx- 

 imating to the ventral profile. A narrow brown band from above 

 the root of the pectoral to the upper part of the caudal fin, where 

 it disappears in a round nearly black spot, which is continued 



