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Genus. Lophorhombus. Macleay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VII., p. 14. 

 This is without doubt the genus Lophonectes of Gunther. Report 

 ofZool. of Challenger Exp. Part VI., p. 28. 

 Dr. Gunther's name has priority. 



1259. Lophorhombus cristatus. Macleay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VII., p. 14. 

 Lophonectes gallus. Gunth. Report Zool. Chall. Part VI. p. 29. 

 PI. XV, fig. B. 

 Port Jackson. 

 Dr. Gunther's name has pi-iority. 



Genus. L^eops. Gunth. 



Body oblong ; head small ; cleft of mouth very narrow, with the 

 dentition much more developed on the blind side than on the 

 coloured. Teeth villiform, in narrow bands ; palatine and 

 vomerine teeth none. Dorsal fin commencing above the front 

 margin of the eye. Scales small, thin, deciduous. Eyes on the 

 left side. 



1260. L^eops parviceps. Gunth. 



Report of Zool. Challenger Exp. Part VI., p. 29. PI. XV. 

 fig. A. 



D. 104. A. 86. 



The height of the body is contained 2§ in the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head 5 J. The snout is very 

 short. The eye rather large ; its diameter being 3|- in the length 

 of the head. A very narrow ridge, longitudinally grooved, 

 separates the two eyes, the lower being conspicuously in advance 

 of the upper. The mouth is directed upwards, and the maxillary 

 of the left side extends scarcely below the anterior margin of the 

 eye. The dorsal fin commences opposite to the front margin of 

 the upper eye and is continued to the root of the caudal, the rays 

 being of moderate length. Caudal rounded. The left pectoral 

 rather longer than the light, and as long as the postorbital portion 

 of the head. The rays of the left ventral are arranged in the 



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