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RECORDS OF THE AtJSTRALTAN MUSEOM. 



MdGIL DDSSUMIERI (Ciir. ^' Vdl .) Bay. 



(Fig. 1)- 



Minill dnssumleri, Cavier <fe Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi., 1886, 



' p. 147. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 352, pi. Ixxiv., fig. 2. W., 



Stead, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxxi., 1906, p. 60, and Add. 



Fisli. Faun. N.S.Wales, 1907, p. 7, and Ed. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1908, 



p. 42. Id., Weber, Nova Guinea, v., 1907, p. 243. 



MiKlil uepaleni^is, Giiuther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1862, p. 424, {n'de 



■ Day). 

 MHfi!l .sfevensi, Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mns., No. 9, 1908, p. 19. 



Characters of the holotype of M. tiferensi, Ogilby, which is incomplete 

 and in a very imperfect state of preservation. D. iv., i/8 ? A. ? P. i/15 ; 

 V. i/5 ; C. ? 29 or 30 scales between the operculum and the hypural 

 joint, and 12 in an oblique row from between the dorsal fins to the belly. 



Fifi. 1 - M/igi/ (iuss/Dinfti, Ciwiar & Valenciennes. Holotype of ^f s/rt'fun, OgUhy. with an 

 enlarged fi}4uie of a sciik- from the middle of the side. 



Maximum depth 3-7 in the length to the liypural joint, and a little 

 greater than the length of the head which is 3*8 in the same. Orbit 3'5 

 in the head, and 13 in the bony interorbital width, which is 26 in the 

 head. First dorsal spine 1*3 in the head. 



Adipose e^'elids well developed though rather narrow, the posterior 

 broader tlian the antei'ior. Premaxillaries missing ; one maxilla 

 remaining which indicates that its end ma}' have been exposed when the 

 mouth was closed. Mandibles incomplete, their margins sparsely ciliated. 

 Vomer and palatines toothless. Preorbital coarsely denticulate on its 

 external and postei'ior mai-gins. Exposed sujfaces of all the scales finely 

 lugose, scaicely any concentric lings being visible, and their edges are 

 ciliated ; those of the cheeks are rugose and ciliated also, and are 

 arranged in five rows between the eye and the subopercular mai'gin. 



Doi'sal spines very strong and long, the iiist inseited a ti-ifle nearer 

 the hypni-al joint than the antei'io?- margin of the eye; itsadpressed tip 

 i-eaches much mmo than half the distance between its base and that of 

 the last dorsal lay. Horsal and anal fins very imperfect and entirely 

 denuded of scales. 



