284 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



entire, slightly arched, in several imbricate series. Colour (recent) 

 dark grey ; edges of scales, belly, and hinder edge of the anal fin 

 pale. 



Long, 15 inches. 



Log. Moreton Bay. Black Bream of the Market. 



GlRELLA MENTALIS. 11. Sp. 



D. 13/14. A. 3/12. L. lat. 56. L. transv. 8/18. 



Height of body three times and one-third, and length of head 

 five times, in the total length ; diameter of orbit four times and 

 one-third in the length of the head, and the length of the snout 

 and width of the interorbital space twice and two-thirds in the same ; 

 upper third of opercle scaly ; teeth tricuspid, a .bare space between 

 the outer and inner ones. The maxillary subtends the posterior 

 nostril ; upper and lower profile equally convex ; nape slightly 

 elevated ; caudal deeply emarginate. Colour (recent) dark purplish 

 grey with several obscure vertical bands, cheeks and chin yellow ; 

 pupil black, iris silvery, head shining greenish black, separated 

 from the scales of the neck by a yellowish crescent. 



Long. 15/' 



Log. Moreton Bay. 



New genus Dactylophora. Fam. Cirrhitidee. 

 One dorsal fin with sixteen spines. One of the simple pectoral 

 rays elongate ; anal short ; lower teeth in a single series ; upper 

 in several in a lunate patch • cheeks naked ; preorbital and 

 preoperculum entire ; four branchiostegals ; scales cycloid, of 

 moderate size ; caudal forked. 



D. SEMIMACULATA. 



D. 16/24. A. 3/10. L. lat. 52. L. transv. 4/11. 



Height equal to length of head, one-fourth of total length; circa- 

 orbitfour-and-a-half, snout three, interorbital space nearly four times, 

 in the length of the head. Five simple pectoral rays, the uppermost 

 free for one-sixth of its length and reaching the origin of the anal. A 

 curved ascending ridge on the preoperculum; lateral eminences 

 between the posterior nasal orifices. First dorsal spine the shortest, 

 spines gradually lengthening to sixth, which is one- third of the 



