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the spinous dorsal ; dorsal spines rather feeble. The posterior 

 margin of the prceoperculum is somewhat shorter than the inferior. 

 Above dark bluish ; beneath greyish, spotted with silvery. 

 Tasmania. (Johnston) 



1190. Cybium semifasciatum. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. VIII., p. 205, 

 Lower Burdekin, in salt water. 



Family. TRACHINIM]. 



1191. Percis Coxii. Ramsay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. VIII., p. 179. 

 Loc. Port Jackson. 



1192. SlLLAGO SIHAMA. Forsk. 



Gunth. Cat. 2, p. 243. Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Sillag., tab. 1, fig. 4. 



D. 11/i. A. 1/22-23. L. lat. 70. L. tr. 4/11. Coec. pyl. 2. 

 Vert. 14/20. 



The height of the body is one-sixth of the total length, the 

 length of the head one-fourth. The space between the eyes is 

 one-half of the length of the snout. The ventral spine feeble. 

 Coloration uniform brownish yellow, with a silvery lateral streak; 

 fins transparent, reddish-violet. 



Queensland. (Klunzinger. ) 



Genus. Pseudochromis. Riipp. 



Head and body rather compressed, more or less elongate ; cleft 

 of the mouth slightly oblique, with the lower jaw longest ; eye 

 lateral. Scales of moderate size, ciliated ; lateral line interrupted. 

 One dorsal with a few spines anteriorly ; ventrals thoracie ; the 

 lower pectoral rays branched. Jaws with cardiforrn teeth, 

 anteriorly with canines ; vomer and palatine bones toothed. 

 Praioperculum entire. Six branchiostegals ; the gill-membranes 

 joined inferiorly ; pseudobrauchia? and air bladder present ; 

 pyloric appendages none. 



Indian Seas. 



1193. Pseudochromis Mulleri. Klunz. 



Sitzb. der K. Akad. der Wissensch, 1879, p. 370. 



D. 3/23-24. A. 3/13. F. 18. V. 1/5. L. lat. 36. L. tr. e. 14. 



