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Acanthaphritis, n. gen. (Trachiuidae). 



Head depressed, tail compressed. Cleft of the mouth sub-horizoutal, with the upper 

 jaw longest. Eye rather large, obliquely directed upwards. Scales large, ciliated. Two 

 separate dorsal fins, the first with five or six spines. Veutrals jugular, with one spine 

 and five soft rays. The lower pectoral rays branched. Bands of villiform teeth in the 

 jaws, without canines ; vomerine teeth in two small widely separate patches. Opercles 

 unarmed ; each prseorbital with a horizontal spine pointing forward. Six branchio- 

 stcgals. Gill-memljranes entirely separate from each other, and from the isthmus. 



Acanthaphritis grandisquamis, n. sp. (PI. XVIII. fig. A). 



D. 5-6/20, A. 24, L. lat. 33, L. transv. 8. Head depressed, its length Ijcing rather 

 more than two-sevenths of the total length (without caudal) ; the eyes are large, occupy- 

 ing the second fourth of the length of tlie head, and standing very close together; 

 mouth wide, the maxillary extending to below the middle of the eye. Occiput, cheeks, 

 and opercles scaly. The first dorsal composed of feeble and short spines ; the second 

 high, the posterior rays being the longest, and extending in old specimens to the middle 

 of the caudal fin. The anal commences immediately behind the first dorsal ; caudal sub- 

 truncated ; pectoral broad, reaching to below the commencement of the second dorsal ; 

 ventrals reaching to the vent. The scales are very coarsely ciliated. Light olive 

 coloured, with an indistinct series of silvery spots along the upper side of the body ; the 

 first dorsal black. Ki Islands. Length of specimens, 2^ to 5^ inches. Ki Islands, Station 

 192 ; 129 fathoms. 



Champsodon vorax, Gthr., Arafura Sea, Ki Islands. Station 192 ; 129 fathoms. 

 Uranoscopus fuscomacidatits, Steindachuer (Wien, S. B. 1868, vol. Iviii. p. 319). 

 Previously known from Kandavu. Arafura Sea. 



Uranoscopus kaianus, n. sp. (PI. XIX. fig. A). 



D. 4/13, A. 13. No barbel below the chin. The length of the head is contained 

 thrice and two-thirds, or thrice and three-fourths in the total without caudal. Sulj- 

 operculum with one, prseoperculum with four, five, or six spines pointing downwards. 

 Humeral spine more or less directed upwards. Upper parts brown, with numerous 

 round whitish spots. Low^er parts whitish. Fii'st dorsal Uack. Ki Islands. Arafura 

 Sea. Length of specimens, 7 to 10 inches. Station 192 ; 129 fathoms. Station 188; 

 28 fathoms. 



Caranx speciosus, Forsk., Somerset. 

 Caranx armatus, Forsk., Somerset. 



