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Prpeopercular margin entire. The first dorsal with seven or 

 eight feeble spines, continuous ; the second and the anal are more 

 developed and scaly, without detached finlets. Three anal spines, 

 continuous with the fin. Lateral line not armed. Head with 

 muciferous cavities. Branchiostegals seven ; air bladder bifurcate 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, the posterior branches united together 

 behind the hasmal spine. Pyloric appendages in small number. 

 East Indian Seas. 



1184. Lactarius delicatulus. Bl. Schn. 

 Gunth. Cat. 2, p. 507. Cuv. and Val. 9, p. 238. PI. 261. 



D. 7-8/^. A. 3/25-26. L. lat. 74. Ccec. pylor. 63. Vert, 

 10/14. 



The cleft of the mouth is very oblique and the lower jaw very 

 prominent. Prseorbital much narrower than the maxillary. The 

 interocular space is convex, and equal in width to the orbit. 

 Coloration uniform ; sometimes with a black opercular spot. 



Queensland. (Klunzinger.) 



Family. NOMEIDiE. 

 Genus Gasterochisma. Richards. 



Body oblong, compressed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate 

 size ; cleft of the mouth wide. Lateral line without any armature. 

 The first dorsal with seventeen spines ; the second and anal with 

 the posterior rays detached, forming finlets , no separate anal 

 spines, The ventral is exceedingly long and broad, and can be 

 completely concealed in a deep fissure on the abdomen. Teeth 

 conical, small, forming single series in the jaws, teeth on the 

 vomer and the palatine bones. 



A New Zealand genus. 



1185. Gasterochisma melampus. Richards. 

 Voy. Ereb. and Terr., p. 60. Gunth. Cat. 2, p. 387. 



B. 7. D. 17/ 1/10 /VI. V. 1/5. A. 2/10 /VI. L. lat. 64. 

 L. tr. 27. 



Ventrals black, one third of the total length. The maxillary 

 reaches somewhat beyond the vertical from the centre of the eye. 



Mouth of the Derwent. (Johnston.) Length, 39 inches. 



