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dark rounded one at the origin of the lateral line. Two large 

 and less distinct marks descend from the origin and middle of 

 the second dorsal to below the lateral line, and besides these 

 there are numerous smaller markings scattered over the body. 

 These markings have not been noted by Castelnau, whose 

 description was prepared from fresh specimens, and as all 

 mine have lost most of their scales it may be that they are 

 not shown or are indistinct in perfect examples. A dark bar 

 extends vertically across the eye which is otherwise golden. 

 Dorsal, anal, pectorals and ventrals dusky, especially towards 

 their margins. 



Fifteen specimens were preserved from the following 

 localities : — 



Spencer Gulf, South Australia, 20 fathoms. 



Forty miles west of Kingston, South Australia, 30 fathoms. 



Off the east coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 40 

 fathoms. 



Oyster Bay, Tasmania. 



Seriolella punctata, Forster. 

 (Plate X., fig. I.) 



Gasterosteus punctatus, Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, 

 Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 36. 



Neptonemus bilineatus, Hutton, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., v., 

 1872, p. 261, pi. viii. 



Seriolella bilineata, Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), x., 

 igo2, p. 128. 



Seriolella punctata, Waite, Rec. Cantb. Mus., i., 1911, p. 231, 

 pi. li. 



D. vi.-vii. 34-39; A. iii. 22-2^; P. 20-22; V. i. 5 ; C. 17. 



Depth 3" 3 to 4, head 3*4 to 3*6, pectoral about 4, base of 

 dorsal 17, and base of anal 3*8 in the length to the hypural. 

 Caudal peduncle 4 to 4"5, eye-opening 4*8 to 5*5, vertical 

 diameter of the orbit 34 to 3*8 in the head. 



Body compressed, elongate, the dorsal and ventral profiles 

 evenly arched, upper parts covered with large pores. Caudal 

 peduncle narrow. Upper surface and sides of the head 

 covered with a thick fleshy porous skin which hides the scales 

 and other characters beneath it. Snout somewhat fleshy and 

 rounded. Nostrils close together, nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the eye ; the posterior longer than the anterior which is 

 round. Mouth oblique ; maxillary rather narrow and weak,. 



