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soft dorsal rays as high as the spinous ; outer border angularly 

 rounded ; last ray almost wholly attached to the peduncle. 

 Anal fin originating below the twelfth dorsal spine ; the spines 

 evenly graduated, the second intermediate in height between the 

 first and the third, which is 1? to If times the height of the 

 first, and subequal to the highest dorsal spine and to the rays. 

 Caudal fin with 10 branched rays, the middle pair the longest, 

 3 to d^ in the total length. Pectoral fin extending backwards 

 to the vertical from the anterior third of the anal, the upper and 

 eight lower rays simple ; the lowest branched ray subequal to the 

 adjoining simple ray, its length thrice or more than thrice the 

 width of its base and a little more than the length of the head. 

 Ventral fin pointed, 1| in the head, extending to the origin of the 

 anal ; its spine stronger and longer than or as long as the third 

 anal spine. Pale reddish brown, the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 lighter with a yellowish tinge ; a dusky band below the second 

 and third dorsal spines, passing downwards through 

 the eye, where it forks, the anterior moiety extending to the base 

 of the preorbital spine, the posterior to that of the upper 

 preopercular spine ; a broad black band from the sixth and 

 seventh spines to the middle of the appressed pectoral fin ; an 

 oval, or oblong black spot below and upon the basal half of the 

 last two spinous and first two soft rays, not reaching to 

 the lateral line ; behind this spot, and occasionally in contact 

 with it is a much less conspicuous spot, which crosses the 

 lateral line, but does not reach to the dorsal fin. Dorsal, 

 caudal, anal, and pectoral fins with numerous small brown spots 

 or dark edged ocelli ; ventral fins uniform gray. (propositus, 

 an officer : in allusion to the black shoulder bands). 



Length to 120 millimeters. (Head and body 90, caudal 

 fin 30). Coast of Queensland. 



Type in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 



Note : — In the " Records of the Australian Museum " (vol. 

 iv., pp. 181-184, 1902) Waite describes as Hypoplectrodes 

 armatus and gives an outline drawing of a fish which he 

 identifies with Serranus arwahis, Castelnau. He has, however, 

 somehow neglected to notice that it is the same fish that I had 

 previously described (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxiv. 

 1899, p. 169 et seq.) as EpinrphelUh's leai. The characters 

 which he notices as separating his fish from Gilhertia and 

 Hijpoplectrodes, and which induced him to propose the subgenus 



