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Scales on body large, each with slightly radiating striae down 

 the centre ; scales on head and throat below pectorals much 

 smaller ; the scales on the head extend to the level of the upper 

 margin of the eye. Lat. 1. 60, lat. tr. 8/15. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), silvery ; when fresh caught 

 it is reddish with pale blue longitudinal streaks, which, however, 

 disappear very quickly ; tip of spinous dorsal and of caudal 

 blackish. The specific name given refers to the local name 

 (Witte-visch); the fish, however, is not white, but is of a paler 

 red than other red fish, such as Silver-fish and the colour fades 

 rather quickly. 



I specimen, 394 mm. in length, from Table Bay. 



SCYLLIORHINUS PUNCTATUS, n.Sp. 



Head broad, depressed ; snout obtuse, rounded, its length 

 more than ^ its greatest breadth and i J times the space between 

 the nasal valves, which are not confluent, without cirri and 



Scylliorhimis fnuctatiis, it. sf>. 



are separated from each other by a space equal to | of the 

 distance between end of snout and mouth ; length of nasal 

 cavity equals | longitudinal diameter of eye, which is 1^ 

 times in length of snout. No labial folds. Distance between 

 posterior angles of the mouth equals twice the length of the 

 space between end of snout and mouth. Gill-openings about 

 ^ longitudinal diameter of eye in length, distance from first to 

 last a little more than i|- times in length of snout. Teeth with 

 a long setose central cusp and two small cusps at the base on 

 each side. Scales of body trispinate, unequal ; larger ones 

 occurring at intervals among the smaller on the body. 



Dorsal fins equal, the length of their bases 2| times in 

 the distance between them, which is f*,) the distance 

 between base of 2nd dorsal and caudal. The ist dorsal 

 originates over or slightly in front of posterior end of base of 

 ventrals ; the 2nd dorsal originates over posterior end of base 

 of anal. Posterior margin of pectorals reaches to about mid- 

 way between posterior end of its base and anterior end of 

 ventrals. Distance of origin of ventrals from snout is 54- times 



[C.P. 6— '14.] 



