BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 3 



•3. Amblygobius gobioides (Ogilhy) =Gobius cristatus 

 Macleay ; fam. Gobiidce ; description insufficient. 



4. Brachirus aspilos (Bleeker) ; fam. SvleidcB ; new to 



Australia. 



5. Cynoglossus sindensis (Day) ; fam. Soleidce ; new to 



Australia. 



6. Chilias stricticeps (De Vis) ; fam. Pteropsaridce ; 



insufficiently described. 



7. Dactylopus dactylopus (Bennett) ; fam. Calliony- 



midce ; new to Australia. 



8. Petroskirtes furtivus (De Vis) ; fam. BlenniidcB ; 



descriptions insufficient. 



9. Petroskirtes japonicus (Bleeker) ; fam. Blenniidce. 

 10. Petroskirtes anolitts (Cuvier & Valenciennes) ; fam. 



Blenniidoi. 



CARCHARITD^. 



Carchapiias spenceri sp. nov. 



Depth of body 6-5, length of head 5-6, predorsal length 

 3.35, length of caudal 3-6 in length of body. Width of 

 liead 1-3, depth of head 1-55, length of snout (preoral 

 length) 3, diameter of eye 11-5, width of interocular 1-6, 

 of internasal 3, of mouth 2 in length of head. 



Body robust ; length of head 1 -8 in that of the trunk. 



Snout short and blunt 1-8 in the space between the eye 



and the 1st gill-opening ; inner angle of nostril nearer to 



the mouth than to the tip of the snout ; ramal length of 



upper jaw 1-25, length of snout 1-5 in the width of the 



mouth. Tip of mandible rounded, extending forward to 



the vertical from the front margin of the eye ; labial folds 



m .1. 12-1-12 or 13-1-13 

 short, the upper sometimes absent. Teeth -^ 



erect and fully serrated in both jaws ; those of the upper 

 jaw triangular and without a trace of notch on the outer 

 edge, of the lower much narrower with a broad evenly 

 convex serrated base ; a small smooth symphysial tooth 

 in each jaw. Space between eye and snout 1*4 in its dis- 

 tance from the 1st gill- opening ; interocular region convex. 

 Head and trunk as long as the tail. 



First dorsal inseited a little nearer to the pectoral 

 than to the ventral, its anterior border slightly convex 

 with the outer angle obtusely pointed ; posterior angle 

 produced and acute, not nearly reaching to the vertical 



