BY CHARLES W. DE VIS, B.A. 287 



Sphyr^ena STRENUA. 



D. 5, 1/9, A. 1/9. L. lat. 82 (?), 



Height nine and a-half in the length, s.c. ; head more than one- 

 fourth of the length ; orbit and interorbital space one-fifth of the 

 head, snout (from upper lip) half. Maxillary reaches a little beyond 

 the vertical from the nostril. Mandible without appendage. The 

 origin of the spinous dorsal is over the tip of the pectoral and 

 middle of the ventral. Soft dorsal midway between the spinous 

 and the caudal — the space between the two dorsals is seven and 

 three-fourths in the total length. The anal commences below the 

 anterior third of the soft dorsal. Body silvery, head golden. 

 Scales very deciduous. 



Long. 10." 



Loc. — Moreton Bay. 



Trochocopus SANGUINOLENTUS. 



D. 12/10. A. 3/12. L. lat. 33. L. trans v. 7/11. 



Height three and one-third; head three and two-thirds in the total 

 length ; snout two and a-half in the head ; pectoral more than two- 

 thirds of the head. Scales of cheeks in six series below the eye, 

 caudal fin rounded medially with elongated outer rays ; soft 

 dorsal and anal pointed ; anterior canines \ laterals small, 

 enlarging posteriorly, forming the outer row of a broad band of 

 tubercular molars, which is not continued distinctly across the 

 symphysis ; posterior canine small. Color (recent), crimson ; on 

 head, opercles and base of pectoral, numerous, guttated spots of 

 yellow ; eight anterior dorsal spines and webs jet black ; scales of 

 posterior part of trunk with a faint blue median streak. 



Long 16." 



Log, Hutchinson Shoal, Cape Moreton, in deep water, 



Labrichthys dux. 



L. lat. 25, L. transv. 3/9. 



Height one-third of the length, s.c, head two-sevenths of same ; 

 snout two and three-fourth, orbit five, interorbit four, in the length 

 of the head, Aposterior canine ; a large, flanked by a smaller canine 



