BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 19 



1167. Psilocranium Coxn. Macleay. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales. Vol. VIII., p. 440. PI. XXII 



Port Jackson. 



Genus Mendosoma. Gay. 



One dorsal fin deeply. notched with twenty-two (23) spines; the 

 anal fin of moderate length, the caudal forked ; the simple pectoral 

 rays feeble, not exceeding the margin of the fin. Small teeth in 

 the upper jaw only, none in the lower or on the palate. Scales of 

 moderate size ; cheeks scaly. Six branchiostegals. 



1168. Mendosoma allporti. Johnston. 



Proc. Roy. Soc, Tasm., 1880, p. 64. 



B. 6. D. 23/1.. A 3 / 18 P 16 L lat 76# L tr 5/ / 16> 



"Body elliptical, compressed. Head small, pointed. Cheeks 

 scaly. Height of body is 3^ in the total length ; the length of the 

 head five times. Dorsal fin notched ; the sixth, seventh and eighth 

 spines are the longest, higher than the longest of the soft dorsal, 

 and about one-fourth the depth of the body. The first soft dorsal 

 is situated in a line vertically drawn through the anus ; the third 

 anal spine is longer than the thickish second, and about half the 

 length of the longest dorsal spines. Pectoral rays more or less 

 covered with linear oblong scales, simple rays fine, feeble, all 

 shorter than the immediately superior branched rays. Body scales 

 moderately large anteriorly, decreasing hi size towards the tail. 

 Caudal forked. Uniformly blackish grey, with a deeper shade 

 along the back." (Johnston.) 



Tasmania. 



Family. SCORPyENID^. 



Species 299 Holoxenus cidaneus. Gunth. 



Mr. Johnston (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1882, p. 114), describes 

 a fish, known in Tasmania as the Velvet Fish, which he believes to 

 be H. cutaneus of Gunther, but he finds some difference in the 

 fin formation. Should it turn out to be a distinct species, he 

 proposes for it the name Holoxenus Guntlteri. 



