126 Mr, C. T. iiegan on the 



Yellowlsli, with G or 7 grej'-brown vertical bands, which 

 extend on to tlie dorsal and anal. Spinous dorsal black, soft 

 dorsal and anal with a black marginal line; ventrals black at 

 the base and at the free end, clear in the middle. Pectorals 

 white. 



Atlantic. 



Psenes arafurensis. 



Psenes arafurensis, Giinther, * Challenger ' Pelagic Fishes, p. 13, pi. ii. 

 (1888). 



Giinther was mistaken in describing this species as having 

 only 7 spines in the spinous dorsal. In his type specimen 

 some of the dorsal spines are broken off short, but it is easy 

 to count 11 dorsal spines, as in other species of Psenes. The 

 single specimen known resembles P. maculatus in colour, but 

 is distinguished by its deeper body, as is shown by the 

 following measurements : — Total length, without caudal, 

 SO millira. i depth of body 18 millim. ; length of head 

 12 millim., of snout 2 millim. j eye-diameter 4*5 millim. 

 D. XI, I 22. A. Ill 22. Sc. 47 |. 



Arafura Sea. 



* Psenes Wh iteleggii. 



Fsenes Whiteleggii, Waite, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2) ix. 1894, 

 p. 218, pi. xvii. 



Depth of body 2| times in total length, length of head 2§ 

 to 2| times. Snout half as long as the eye-diameter, which 

 is 3 times in the length of head and more than the interorbital 

 width. Maxillary extending to below anterior margin of 

 eye. D. XI, 119, the third and fourth spines longest, equal 

 to half the length of head, higher than the soft dorsal. 

 A. Ill 18. Pectorals long, | the length of head. Ventrals 

 reach the anal. Caudal deeply forked. L. lat. 55. 



Delicate salmon-colour, crossed by three brownish trans- 

 verse bands, the first very broad, extending from the head 

 to the vent, the second narower, connecting the middle rays 

 of the soft;dorsal and anal, the third on the caudal peduncle. 



Head brown above, silvery below ; fins brown. 



Total length 47 millim. 



Coast of New South Wales. 



Psenes indicus. 



Cubiceps mdicus, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 090. 



Psenes indicus, Day, Fishes of India, p. 237, pi. liv. fig. 2 (1878), 



Depth of body 2^ times in total length, length of head 3 



