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rays. The height of the body is 2f, the length of the head 5, in 

 the total length ; the fifth dorsal spine 3, the highest dorsal ray 4, 

 in the height of the body. The prseorbital is naked, in P. 

 Waigiensis it is scaled. 30 Ctm. 

 King George's Sound. (Klunzinger.) 



Species 230. Pachymitopon squamosum. All. and Macleay. 



Dr. Klunzinger suggests that this may be the Pemilepterus 

 tahtnel of Forsk. 



1161. Haplodactylus jkeandratus. Sol. 



Richards Trans. Zool. Soc. III., p. 83. Klunz. Archiv. fur 

 Naturg. XXXVIIL, 1872, p. 



About 18 inches in length, of a brownish olive colour, with 

 anastomosed wavy lines, and small white spots, getting gradually 

 lighter towards, and quite white on the belly. Teeth, numerous 

 in the jaws, in many rows, lanceolate, compressed, rather obtuse, 

 flexile ; a few acute ones on the palate, none on the tongue. 

 Pectoral fins ovate, obtuse, short, not reaching to half the length 

 of the abdomen, unarmed, at the base externally rivulose, ashen 

 coloured, immaculate, with 14 rays, the inferior rays covered with 

 a thick skin. Anal fin broadly rivulose, acute, 7 rayed, the first 

 ray simple, the last bipartite. Caudal fin blackish-olive, clouded 

 with paler. 



B. 6. D. 16/18. P. 14. A. 1/6. C. 17. 



The above is a translation of Dr. Solander's description, who 

 took it at Cape Kidnapper, New Zealand. Sir John Richardson 

 adds, the head is scarcely gibbous over the orbit, the spinous dorsal 

 is higher than the jointed one, and the caudal is truncated with the 

 corners rounded. Re-described at great length by Dr. Klunzinger 

 (loc. cit.) 



Hobson's Bay. (Klunzinger.) 



1162. Lethrinus nebulosus. Forsk. 

 Gunth. Cat. 1, p. 460. Syn. L. esculentus. Cuv. and Val. 

 D. 10/9. A. 3/8. L. lat. 48. L. tr. 6/15. 

 The height of the body is 3| in the total length, the length of 

 the head four times. The snout is rather elongate and pointed. 



