

BY CHARLES W. DE VIS, M.A. 547 



orbit. The cleft of the mouth reaches beyond the fore edge of 

 the orbit. Dorsal spines short, equal to the short diameter of the 

 orbit, depressed. Gill covers with 5 spines. Teeth short but 

 stout and sharp, especially on lower jaw. Short maudibulary 

 tentacles. Pectoral short, wide, rounded; ventrals wing shaped. 

 Lateral line of distant pores without filaments or hardly perceptible. 

 Eyes covered by the skin of the head. Caudal rounded. 



Length 9-h inches. Locality Queesland coast. 



The specimen being stuffed and its skin consequently stretched 

 little reliance can be placed on the proportions of the body given 

 above, nor can the pecularities of the skin itself be stated. The 

 only indication of an eye is an oval spot of lighter coloured skin. 

 The two ventral rays are divided to the base, the outer one is 

 broadly bordered with dense striated tissue. 



Pelor barbatus. 



D. 3, 14/8. A. 12. 



Upper pectoral rays not produced. Eye three-fiths of the width 

 of the interorbit. The interorbit, occipital groove and preocular 

 portion of the head deeply sunken; a long pointed flap from each 

 side of the lower jaw. 



Colour brown, densely freckled with blackish brown. Soft 

 dorsal with a pale blotch in the middle of its anterior half, caudal 

 with a broad pale band across the centre flecked with dark brown. 

 Pectoral with a pale central band becoming more distinct towards 

 its upper edge. A white spot in front of each orbit. 



Locality, Cape York. Collected by Mr. K. Broadbent. 



