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both jaws, small, flattened, triangular and acute, with rounded 

 projections on each side basally but not tricuspid. 



First dorsal fin originating well behind the ventrals, but a 

 little nearer the tip of the snout than the end of the tail ; its 

 posterior margin nearly vertical and forming a right angle 



with the lower hiargln. Second dorsal subequal to the first 

 and of similar form, its hinder angle about midway between 

 the posterior insertion of the first and the tip of the caudal. 

 Anal fin low with its outer border oblique and terminating 

 below the anterior part of the second dorsal ; the length of its 

 base about i^ in its distance from the caudal. Greatest 

 breadth of the caudal a little less than one-fourth its length. 

 Pectorals longer than broad, with the angles rounded. \'en- 

 trals quadrilateral, 15 as long as broad. 



Colour. — CJreyish brown above with indistinct darker cross- 

 bands ; the first narrow and extending betw een the e\es, the 

 next broader and covering the space between the gill-openings. 

 There are two more before the first dorsal and one in front of 

 the second dorsal. Entire body with evenly spaced large 

 brown spots which are darkest on the cross-bars and become 

 <;longate on the caudal. Three similar spots on each side of 

 the nuchal band. Fins also with spots which are most 

 numerous on the dorsal. 



Type. — A female, 730 mm. long, taken outside Port Phillip 

 Heads, Victoria, in November, 1909. 



Of the two described species of ParascyUini}i this is 

 nearest allied to P. colhire. Rams, and Ogil., but it may be at 

 ■once distinguished by its much broader head, more rounded 

 snout, larger fins and different colouration. 



