FISHES FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA — WAITE. 73 



The pectoral is falcate, its third and fourth upper rays a little 

 less than the head in length. The caudal fin is deeply cleft but 

 not forked as in Brama, the peduncle is relatively deep being but 

 little less than the diameter of the large eye. 



Scales. — The scales are simply cycloid, those above the lateral 

 line arranged obliquely upwards. The lateral line commences 

 with a strong curve to beneath the dorsal spines, whence, it 

 runs almost straight to the end of the caudal rays. 



Colours. — The colour appears to have been silvery, the fins are 

 dark brown, without markings. 



The general habit of this species suggests that it is an inhabi- 

 tant of somewhat deep water. 



I have pleasure in associating with this interesting fish, the 

 name of Mr. Bernard H. Woodward, Curator of the Western 

 Australian Museum. 



Length 172 mm. 



Loc. — One example from Mandurah. 



Paralichthys muelleri, Klnnzinfjer. 



Pseudorlioinhns mulleri, Klunzinger, Arch, fiir Naturg., 1872, p. 



40 ; Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx., 1879, p. 407, pi. ix., 



fig. 2. 

 Very little colour appears to be developed in this species, but 

 as most of the scales are lost in the two examples forwarded, 

 precise information is not available. A dark spot, probably an 

 ocellus, is present on the lateral line at the beginning of the last 

 third of the body. The figure quoted, rejjresents either a dextral 

 example, or was i^eversed in drawing. The specimens were trawled 

 between Fremantle and Houtman's Abrolhos. 



CyNOGLOSSUS BROADHURSTI, sp. jKir. 



(Plate viii., fig. 2.) 



D. 107 ; A. 86 ; C. 10 ; L. lat. 88 ; L. tr. l>dei- L. lat. 13. 



Length of head 5-77 ; depth of body 3-9 in the total length ; 

 diameter of eye 8-2 ; and length of snout 3*0 in the head. 



The eyes are situated about half a diameter apart, the upper 

 being a little in advance of the lower. One nostril is placed 

 between the eyes, the other in front of the lower eye. Mouth 

 strongly curved, its angle in advance of the middle of the head, 

 reaching to below the centre of the lower eye. Lips not fringed. 

 Rostral hook very short. Opercle oblique, notched behind. 



