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are conical, disposed in a patch within each jaw, and a single 

 series of larger teeth along the sides. Tlie nostrils lie close to- 

 gether in front of the eye, the anterior one bearing a tentacle. 

 The eye is large, it cuts the upper profile and is 3-7 in the length 

 of the head. The inter-orbital breadth is narr<jw, etpial to the 

 length of the eye. 



Head depressed, body cylindrical. 



The distance b;'tween the origin of the dorsal and the end of 

 the caudal is 1 vS in that between the former point and the end of 

 the snout. Both dorsal and anal fins are widely separated from tlie 

 caudal : the former is slightly in advance of tlie anal which com- 

 mences beneath its second ray. The pectoral is rounded, the 

 middle rays being loiigest, 3-2 in the length of the head, the lower 

 rays rapidly decrease in length and the ventral is attached to the 

 sixteenth ra}'. The posterior sucking disc is almost circular, a 

 little broader than lo)ig, and I'eaches only to beneath the middle of 

 the pectoral : the distance of the vent from the disc is thrice that 

 between it and the anal. The caudal is slightly rounded, its length 

 2-4 in that of the head ; the length of the peduncle is more than 

 twice its depth. 



Colours. — In life, olive gix^en, uniform, or with Ijrown spots on 

 the body, arranged as bands, or with bands fully defined which 

 are four in number ; a brown or red mark on the side of the 

 snout through the eye to the preopercle. 



Length 2-5 mm. 



This diminutive species was first brought to my notice by Mr. 

 A. R. McCulloch, who found it on a seaweed, identified by Mr. T. 

 Whitelegge as Phyllo-tpora comosa, Agard. It proves to be a 

 common fish on the coast of New South Wales, and examples in the 

 collection of the ^[useum were pi'eviously regarded as young 

 specimens of another species. 



DiPLOCREPIS COSTATUS, OijilblJ. 



Diphicrepl-t costatus, Ogilby, Proc. Liini. 8oc. X. 8. AVales, x., 

 1<S85, p. 270 ; AVaite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v., 1904, pi. xxiv., 

 fig. 1. 



]\Ir. Gabriel's collection includes a single example of this 

 species, an addition to the Victorian fauna. 



