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commences a little behind the posterior half of the pectoral, and 

 the length of its base is two and one-fifth in the total length; 

 the anterior rays are short and gradually increase in length to the 

 twelfth which, with the thirteenth and fourteenth, is the longest 

 in the tin, and about one-seventh longer than the snout ; behind 

 these the rays become abruptly shorter, so that the outer margin 

 of the fin is concave behind them, and the posterior two or three 

 rays appear to be distinctly elongated, the last being about equal 

 to the eighteenth : the anal commences beneath the middle 

 dorsal ray, and its shape is similar to that of the dorsal, the base 

 of which is exactly twice the length of its base; the fifth ray is the 

 longest, and is but a fraction shorter than the longest dorsal ray, 

 while the distance between the base of the first ray and the origin of 

 the caudal is contained one and one-fourth times in that between 

 the same point and the extremity of the snout : the pectoral is 

 small and rather pointed, the fourth to seventh rays the longest, 

 two and one-seventh in the length of the head : ventrals small, 

 equal in length to the snout : caudal deeply emarginate. Scales 

 very small, each one pierced by a small, central, circular pore ; 

 opercle, sub- and inter-opercle scaly, the scales being of equal 

 size to those on the body ; rest of the head naked, covered with a 

 thick and densely porous skin ; vertical fins scaly over about two- 

 thirds of their height. Lateral line forming a long curve to 

 beneath the longest dorsal rays. 



Colors. — Uniform brown, darkest above ; the sides of the head 

 washed with dull blue ; the fins and opercles with gold. 



Type. — In the Australian Museum. 



The Australian Museum also possesses a specimen of Pteraclis 

 velifer, a species previously unrecorded from New Zealand. 



REVIEW OP THE GENUS SCHEDOPHILUS, COCCO, 

 AND ITS ALLIES. 



By J. Douglas Ogilby. 



The present paper was suggested by the occurrence on the 

 coast of New South Wales of a specimen of Schedophilus maculatus, 

 this being the first record for the genus from Australian waters, 

 and the time has been deemed opportune to review the history, 

 such as it is, of the various species, the more especially that these 

 pelagic forms are liable to occur at any time upon any part of the 



