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Length 67 mm. Dredged Port Phillip Heads, by J. B. 

 WUson, 1888-9. 



This specimen is figured in Plate III, Fig. 2. 



(h) D. 3/30/3. A. 2/23. V. 2. 

 First dorsal over operculum ; first and second rays mucli 

 longer than third ; clear membrane between the soft rays. 

 Scales distinct. Pectorals to vent ; ventral rays long, 

 slender. Height nearly five times in total length. Supra- 

 orbital tentacles aborted, and snout tentacles short, but 

 distinct. Colour, few vertical dark bands ; white band 

 from eye across prseoperculum and operculum, continued 

 along trunk and tail, below the lateral line to the root of 

 the caudal. Length 53 mm. Dredged at Port Phillij) 

 Heads by J. B. Wilson, 1888-9. 



Tripterygium macleayanum, n. sp. 

 D. 3/14/12. A. 22. L. lat. 25. L. tr. 3/1/8. P. ]5. V. 2. 



Height of body rather less than length of head, and about 

 equal to length of tail-fin. Length of head constituting 

 about two-sevenths of combined length of head and trunk, 

 without caudal fin. Insertion of ventrals half-way between 

 tij) of snout and vent. Pectorals reaching nearly opposite 

 to end of second dorsal. Scales with fine toothed edges. 

 Lateral line distinct to opposite the fourth ray of the third 

 dorsal. Eyes large, diameter about one-third length of head. 

 Short fringed tentacles above orbit and at outer side of 

 nostril. Inter- orbital space concave, narrower than diameter 

 of eye. Line of fringed papillas above and behind orbit. 

 Rows of finely-toothed scales on sides of occiput, upper edge 

 of operculum, and front of prseoperculum. Colour (spirit) 

 orange, with broad, indistinct, red vertical bands ; eyes red ; 

 vertical fins pale, with black margins. Length of single 

 specimen, 50 mm. It is figured in Plate III, Fig. 4. 



Dredged by J. B. Wilson near Port Phillip Heads, summer 

 of 1888-9. Dedicated to the Hon. Sir William Macleay, 

 author of " The Ichthyology of Australia." 



Syngnathus 'phillipi, n. sp. 

 D. 25-26. Osseous rings 18 -f 40-44, reckoning the com- 

 plete ring which bears tbe pectoral fins as the first body 

 ring. 



Adults between four and five inches long. Length of 

 snout, about half that of head. Lenoth of trunk, about 



