BY CHARLES W. DE VIS, B.A. 285 



height of the body and equals the longest dorsal ray ; profile of the 

 soft dorsal arched ; caudal peduncle long, its depth one-third of the 

 length of the head ; caudal broad, moderately forked. Color in 

 spirit yellowish brown ; tail with large, black spots, and the lobes 

 pale- tipped ; trunk with black spots passing into blotches anteriorly 

 and superiorly ; a dark line from the eye and another from the 

 preoperculuni across the operculum ; a row of spots along the 

 middle of the soft dorsal. 



Long. 9." 



South Australia. 



Platycephalus skmermis. 



Dl. 7/12. A. 11. L. lat. 50. 



Head one-third of the total length, its breadth two-fifths of its 

 length ; orbit two and-half , interorbit four times in the length of the 

 snout ; snout two and three-fourths in the head ; head unarmed, with 

 low irregular ridges, the superciliary forming a hook before the orbit ; 

 a' short spine at the upper angle of the operculum ; two preoper- 

 cuJar spines sub-equal in length, the lower much the broader at the 

 base. Brown above (in spirits) white beneath, the colors defined 

 by a marbled line ; a broad black bar across the head ; anal white 

 spotted with brown ; the other fins yellowish brown spotted with 

 blackish brown. 



Long. 5." 



South Australia. 



POLYNEMUS SPECULAR IS. 



D. 7, 1/15-16. A. 3/17-18. L. lat. 56. 



Height of body equal to the length of the caudal lobes, and 

 one-fourth to four-seventeenth of total length ; head one-fourth 

 to one-fifth of same ; orbit three and a-half in the head, snout 

 one-half of the orbit. Seven pectoral filaments, the upper one not 

 quite or as long as the pectoral, and reaching the anus * orbit 

 covered by a thick semi-opaque membrane. Lateral line with a 

 short arch beneath the posterior third of the soft dorsal ; preoper- 

 culum entire on lower limb, with some serrations at the angle 

 and a notch above it; soft dorsal fin sub-falcate. Colour (recent) 



