320 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MU8EDM. 



Body, with the exception of the breast, covered with minute 

 scales which extend forwards to the first dorsal spine, and thence 

 downwards and forwards to above the hinder margin of the eye, 

 leaving the top of the head and the nape bare. The cheeks are 

 also minutely scaly. Lateral line strongly arched anteriorly, its 

 straight portion armed with about thirty plates, which are large 

 posteriorly and with broad blade-like spines directed forwards. 



First dorsal originating over the operculum, its spines very 

 weak and flexible, the fourth the longest, a little longer than the 

 eye. No recumbent spine in front. Second dorsal very high 

 and rounded, the tenth to fourteenth rays longest, 1-19 in the 

 head ; the bases of the rays are enclosed in a thin skinny sheath. 

 Anal similar to the second dorsal, but with its rays shorter; the 

 anterior spines are very weak and entirely hidden in the skin. 

 Margin of pectoral rounded, the fifth ray the longest. Ventrals 

 very large, the fourth ray reaching to the base of the fifth anal 

 ray. Caudal emarginate, the tips of the lobes rounded. 



Colours. — Brownish, with ten darker vertical bars, the first 

 over the eye, the second in front of the first dorsal, six more 

 below the dorsal fins, and two on the caudal peduncle. The bars 

 are indistinctly contiuued on to the dorsal and anal fins, which 

 are also blotched with white posteriorly. Ventrals dark brown. 

 Total length 112 mm. 



Ob*. — This is doubtless the young form of some large species 

 of Caranx or allied genus, though just which of the several 

 closely-related divisions of the Carangidae I am unable to decide. 

 The great development of the fins and the pronounced colour 

 markings at once distinguishes this species from all others that 

 are known to me. 



Jlab. — Found stranded on the beach at Freshwater, near 

 Sydney, by Mr. A. T. Basset Hull. 



DlRETMUS ARGENTEV8, Johnson. 



Diretmus argenteus, Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 103, 

 pi. xxxvi., fig. 1. 



Obs. — In June, 1908, the Trustees received from Mr. II. E. 

 Bane a specimen <>f this rare species. 85 nun. in length, which he 

 found floating dead upon the surface of the sea to the south-easl of 

 CapeHowe, N".S. Wales. It agrees perfectly with Goode& Bean's 3 



SGoode & Bean — Oceanic Ichthyology (Spec. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., ii., 

 1895, p. 211, pi. lxv.,fig. 234). 



