80 DR. RICHARDSON'S DESCRIPTION OF AUSTRALIAN FISH. 



and 68, or he would not have had two figures done at such a short interval of time ; but 

 the details are not made out with sufficient clearness to enable us to judge correctly in 

 the matter, or whether or not they may all safely be referred to C. truttaceus. In the 

 ' Histoire des Poissons ' reference is made only to a single figure of Forster's. 



The intestines of Centropristes salar agree with the account given of those of truttaceus. 

 The pharyngeal teeth are villiforni, the lower ones, covering a long narrow dental sur- 

 face of the figure of an arrow-head. The rakers of the outer row are long, slender, 

 stiff and acute, ciliated on the interior edge, and smooth externally ; the others are mere 

 ciliated tubercles. There are twenty-five vertebrae : the eighth and ninth have a bridge 

 of bone connecting their transverse processes, and thus enclosing round openings for the 

 passage of vessels ; the eleventh, which is perhaps the first caudal one, has, like all the 

 succeeding ones, a descending tapering spinous process. 



Dimensions. 



Inches. Lines. 



Length from intermaxillarj' symphysis to upper tip of caudal .11 6 



Length from ditto to end of central rays 10 4 



Length from ditto to end of scales on caudal . 10 



Length from ditto to end of anal 710 



Length from ditto to end of dorsal 710 



Length from ditto to beginning of anal 6 8 



Length from ditto to anus 6 3j 



Length from ditto to beginning of dorsal 3 7^ 



Length from ditto to tip of gill-flap 2 9 



Length from ditto to centre of orbit 011^ 



Length of diameter of orbit 5 



Length of pectorals 1 6 



Length of ventrals 1 6 



Length of spinous part of dorsal 1 9 



Length of soft ditto ditto 3 



Height of fourth dorsal spine 1 4 



Height of ninth ditto 7| 



Height of soft rays of dorsal 9 



Height of soft rays of anal 1 



Height of body at ventrals 2 8 



Thickness of body 1 3 



Depth of caudal fork 1 



Length of descending branch of stomach and oesophagus . . 2 8 



Length of pyloric branch of stomach 6 



Length of ' cul de sac' of stomach 1 8 



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