392 Dr. A. Gunther on new Species of Fishes. 



with a few small round lighter spots on the side of the head 

 and body. Back with some darker transverse spots ; and a 

 deep-black spot across the back of the tail. The spinous 

 dorsal with a deep-black margin ; the soft dorsal with a broad 

 lighter margin. 



One specimen, 9-^ inches long, from Sydney ; sent by Hr. 

 Darnel to the Godeffroy Museum, and now in the British 

 Museum. 



Apogon Gillii. 



Apogonichthys Gillii, Steindacimer, Wien, SB. 1867, Iv. p. 11, fig. 1. 

 Mionorm lunatus, Kretft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 942. 



D. 6 1 ^. A. 8?-9. L. lat. 27. L. transv. 3/11. 



The height of the body is contained twice and two thirds 

 in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head 

 twice and a half. Both margins of the prasoperculum entire. 

 Upper profile of the snout concave. Snout pointed, as long 

 as the eye, with the lower jaw prominent. The maxillary 

 does not quite reach the vertical from the hind margin of the 

 eye. Dorsal spines moderately strong, as long as the rays, 

 the second and third longest. Caudal fin rounded. The 

 lateral line extends to the root of the caudal. Brownish, 

 irregularly mottled with darker ] a pair of dark spots on the 

 root of the caudal. 



Two specimens, 2|- inches long, found by Hr. Darnel at 

 Rockliampton, Queensland ; type of Mionorus lunatus, 6 inches 

 long, from Cox River. 



Sehastes percoides auct., 

 — Sehastes Alporti (Castelnau). 



Seriola hippos. 



D. 7 I 25. A. 2 1 17. 



Scales minute. The height of the body is contained twice 

 and one third in the total length (without caudal), the length 

 of the head thrice and one third. The snout is short and 

 high ; the upper profile of the head parabolic, so that the fish 

 resembles Caranx hippos. Jaws equal in front ; the maxil- 

 lary extends to below the middle of the eye ; its extremity 

 dilated, as broad as the prgeorbital above it. Eye far below 

 the upper profile of the head. Angle of the prgeoperculum 

 rounded. The first dorsal is low, its spines pungent, the fifth 

 (which is the longest) as long as the eye. Anterior rays of 

 the soft dorsal and anal somewhat higher than the others. 



