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Neotephraeops zebra Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 410, 



1881 (King Georges Sound). 

 Melambasis zebra Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, p. 42, 



1873 (error). 

 Melambaphes zebra McCulloch, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 63, 1927 (not 



reported in New South Wales since Steindachner's record). 

 Girellichthys zebra Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 



vol. SO, pt. 1, p. 356, 1879 (Murray River and King Georges Sound). 

 Melambaphes nigroris (not Cuvier) Gxjnther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 



11, p. 115, Feb. 1, 1863 (type locality: Victoria; South Australia). 

 Melambaphes guentheri Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1863, p. 213 



(on Glyphisodon nigroris Gunther). 

 Girella fasciata Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. KI., 



vol. 53, p. 430, pi. 6, fig. 2, 1866 (type locality: Hobsons Bay; Port 



Jackson). (Name in synonymy.) 



Depth 2K; head 3%. Snout 3 in head; eye 4}3, 1% in snout; jaws 

 even; maxillary reaches nearly opposite eye, length 3% in head; outer 

 teeth large, tridentate, inner band small; small band of teeth on vomer, 

 none on palatines; interorbital nearly 3, little elevated; preopercle 

 edge entire. 



Scales 80 in lateral line; 13 above, 28 below; predorsal scales extend 

 forward to eye at least; cheek with inconspicuous, fine, irregular 

 scales. 



D. XIV or XV, 12 or 13, sixth spine 2% in head, first ray 2Ko; 

 A. Ill, 11, third spine 2}^, first ray 1%; caudal 1, emarginate behind; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Bluish gray. Blackish bar on pectoral base. Upper side of 

 shoulder girdle, gill opening, and upper part of spinous dorsal blackish. 

 Ten broad transverse dark bands on body narrower than pale inter- 

 spaces. Length, 164 mm. (Steindachner.) 



Western Australia, South Austraha, Victoria, and New South 

 Wales. The above description is given from Steindachner, as my 

 examples are all too small. 



U.S.N.M. No. 87366. Adelaide, South Australia. February 28, 1920. C. M. 

 Hoy. Length, 23 to 27 mm. Twelve examples. 



Genus PROTERACANTHUS Gunther 



Proteracanthus Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 426, 1859. (Type, 

 Crenidens sarissophorus Cantor, monotypic.) 



Body ovoid, deep. Head moderate. Muzzle obtuse. Eye moder- 

 ate. Mouth small, low. One or two series of flat tricuspid teeth in 

 each jaw, with band of similar teeth close behind and replacing 

 former; no molars. Branchiostegals 5. Scales moderate, ctenoid. 

 Head scaly except snout front. Soft vertical fins scaly basally. 

 Kecumbent spine before dorsal. Dorsal spines 9 or 10, fourth erect 

 prolonged until longer than head; soft fin higher than all other dorsal 



