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the last rays of the dorsal ; body reddish brown, with black spots on 
the belly and ventrals. 
D. 11-1/9; A. 3/5; L. lat. 50-52. 
Parapistus, g. n.—Form of body Scorpzenoid, without occipital 
pit; head not scaly, armed with spmes; pectoral fins with divided 
rays; trunk covered with ctenoid scales; branchiostegal rays seven ; 
supplementary gills large ; a cleft behind the fourth branchial arch. 
5. Parapistus marmoratus.—Length of head contained 3 times, 
and depth of body 35 times, in the total length. Body light brown, 
with darker marblings. 
D, 15/9; A. 3/5; P11; UL. lat, 56-63. 
6. Sciena Nove Hollandie.—All the fins, except the first dorsal, 
almost entirely covered with scales ; depth of body=length of head; 
caudal rhombic. 
D. 10-1/25-7; A. 2/7; L. lat. 50. 
7. Sphyrena grandisquamis.—Length of head contained 34 times, 
and depth of body 82 times, in the total length ; operculum rounded 
off; maxillary bone terminating in front of eye; dorsal commencing 
behind the apex of the pectorals. 
D. 5-1/10; A. 1/9; L. lat. c. 82. 
8. Gobius Krefftii.—Body with three rows of round spots ; length 
of head contained four times, depth of body 6} times, in the total 
length ; pectorals with several hair-like free rays. 
D. 6-1/9; A. 1/9; L. lat. 36. 
9. Eleotris striata.—Scales rather large; head much pointed in 
front, forehead very narrow; head, except operculum, scaleless ; 
obsolete spots on the sides of the body. 
D. 7-1/10; A. 1/10-11; L. lat. 35. 
10. Eleotris gymnocephalus.—Head and nape without scales ; 
forehead broad, flat; eye small; body yellowish, with the margins 
of the scales brownish ; a large blackish spot before the caudal fin 
and upon the axillee of the pectorals. 
D. 7-1/9; A. 1/9; P. 19-20; L. lat. 39-40. 
11. Hleotris Richardsonii.—All the fins intensely yellow ; dorsals 
and caudal spotted or banded with brown; caudal short, rounded, a 
brown longitudinal band on each side of the body ; cheeks and oper- 
cula scaled; head contained 43 times in the total length, and eye 
5 times in that of the head. 
D. 719% Ay 1/9; L. lat. 37. 
12. Mugil breviceps.—Eye without adipose membrane; head 
contained 52 times in the total length. 
D. 4(1/8; A. 3/9; V. 1/5; P. 2/13; L. lat. 48. 
