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caudal is of elongate form, its length about 3J in the total length. 

 The pectorals are a little conical. Colour pale reddish brown, 

 becoming white on the belly. The root of the caudal and the 

 ventrals inclining to a deep brown. The anal has large blotches 

 and the ventrals longitudinal streaks of pale brown. The membrane 

 which unites the last dorsal spine to the back has a large black 

 blotch bordered towards the base with white. 

 Port Jackson. (Gunther.) 



Family. TRICHONOTID^S. 



Genus. Hemeroccetes. Cuv. and Yah 

 Head depressed, pointed, trunk cylindrical, tail slightly com- 

 pi'essed ; cleft of the mouth wide, nearly horizontal, with the 

 upper jaw longest ; eyes rather large, directed upwards. Scales of 

 moderate size, cycloid ; lateral line continuous. One dorsal ; all 

 the rays articulated and not branched : ventrals jugular with one 

 spine and five rays. Gill-opening very wide, with the gillmem- 

 branes scarcely united below the thi-oat ; seven branchiostegals ; 

 pseudobranchire. Villiform teeth in both the jaws, on the vomer, 

 and on the separated pharyngeal bones ; none on the palatines. 

 Air-bladder and pyloric appendages none. A New Zealand genus. 



1214. Hemerocoztes Haswelli. Ramsay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. VI., p. 575. 

 Port Jackson. Dredged in 10 fathoms at North Head 



Family. BLENNHD^E. 

 1215. Salarias Mulleri. Klunz. 



Sitzb. der K. Akad. der. Wissensch., 1879, p. 388. 



D. 12/20. A. 23-24. 



Height 8, head 5h in the total length. Rather elougate, low, 

 crested on the neck ; orbital cirrhus simple, shorter than the 

 eye ; profile of head perpendicular or even sloping inwards 

 towards the snout. No canine teeth. Dorsal fin deeply notched ; 

 the 1st dorsal a little lower than the 2nd, a little over the height 

 of the body, and as high as the anal fin ; the second dorsal 

 connected with the caudal fin which is rounded. Colour brownish, 



