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surface of head, operculum, and snout, with u-regularly 

 white lines, bands, or patches, more or less conforming to 

 the ridges. 



Dredged at Port Phillip Heads by J. Bracebridge Wilson. 

 Named from the localit}^ 



Stigmatophora argits, Rich., var. brevicau data. 

 D. 49 or 50. Osseous rings 20 + about 60. 



Snout 17 mm. I Head 25 mm. Trunk 46 mm. Tail 87 mm. 



Skull 8 mm. ) 



Dorsal spots black, without white edges. Green. 



Differs from S. argus in relative length of tail, and in the 

 absence of the white rings round the black spots. Spots 

 arranged in .six tolerably regular longitudinal series. 



Dredged in seaweed, Geelong Inner, December 10, 1887. 



Macleay's account of S. arr/iis, Rich. T.Z.S. Ill, p. 183. 

 PJ. 7, Fig. 2. Gunther, Cat. VIIT, p. 189. 



D. 49-52. Osseous rings 20 + about 75. 



Snout very long, about twice as long as the remaining 

 part of the head. Operculum with a slight ridge in young 

 examples, nearly entirely disappearing in old. Yent lielow 

 the middle of the dorsal fin. Tail more than twice as long- 

 as the trunk ; egg \)o\ich. shorter than the trunk. Upper 

 parts with numerous small, black, white-edged ocelli, some- 

 times irregularly arranged, sometimes forming longitudinal 

 or transverse series. Tasmania. Port Jackson. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 



Outline figures of s'ome new Victorian Blennies. All the 

 figures are life size. 



Fig. 1. — Cristiceps luilsoni, n. sj). The variety noted is 

 the one figured, l»ut the general outline is that 

 of the species. 



Fig. 2. — Cristiceps pldllipi, n. sp. 



Fig. 3. — Cristiceps austraUs, Cuv. et Val. A young speci- 

 men, drawn for purposes of comparison. 

 Fig. 4. — Tripterygium mcLclea^yanum , n. sp. 



