BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 41 



pp. 473 and 4SS=Percis cancellata Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes, ibid., p. 268. East Indian and Louisiade 

 Archipelagos. 



5. Parapercis clathrata ; nom. subst. for Percis tetra- 



canthus Lacepede, ibid., iv. 1803, pp. 285 and 302 : 

 inadmissible on account of the preceding species. 



6. Parapercis ocularis Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., ii, 



1899, p. 109, pi. xxiv : Coast of New South Wales 

 in from 30 to 84 fathoms. 



7. Chilias strictiCeps (De Vis), Proc. Linn. Soc, 



N.S. Wales, ix, 1884, p. 545. Southern Queens- 

 land (Southport ; Peel Island and Bulwer, More- 

 ton Bay). 



CHILIAS STRICTICEPS (De Vis). 



D. V 21; Ai 18; P. 17: Sc. 6-62-13. Depth of 

 hody 6-1, of caudal peduncle 11-4, length of head 3-4 in 

 length of body. Length of snout 2-65, diameter of eye 5, 

 width of interorbit 3, height of soft dorsal 2-35, of anal 

 2-65, length of middle caudal rays 1-8, of pectoral fin 1-45 

 in length of head. 



Snout broadly rounded, its upper profile flat ; upper 

 lip very wide, more than half the eye- diameter ; maxillary 

 not extending to the vertical from the eye ; lower jaw 

 bluntly pointed, much longer than the upper. Upper jaw 

 with a broad band of villiform teeth and an outer series 

 of strong conical teeth ; a patch of conical teeth on the 

 head of the vomer. Eye superior, well elevated above the 

 surface of the head, its diameter rather more than the 

 width of the preorbital ; intororbital region flat. Pre- 

 opercle entire ; opercula^r spine small and sharp ; tip of 

 subopercle serrated. 



Spinous dorsal originating a little behind the base of 

 the pectoral; 4th spine longest, as long as the eye; 1st 

 spine minute ; membrane of last spine fully attached to 

 the 1st ray ; last ray not differentiated. Anal originating 

 below the 5th dorsal ray. Caudal rounded, the upper rays 

 slightly produced. Pectoral extending to above the origin 

 of the anal. Ventral a little shoiter than the pectoral ; 

 4th ray longest, reaching to the anal. 



Lilac, clouded above with brown, so as to form about 

 seven broad blotches indistinctly separated by lighter 

 interspaces ; a lilaceous band bordered below by a dark 



