58 Records of the S.A. Museum 



eye, greater than the interorbital space, which is 2 -6 in the eye : pectoral i -3 in 

 the eye : inner ventral ray 2 -o, last dorsal spine 4 'O in the head. 



Fig. 30. O. viiriiis. 



Form and structure of the head and body similar to 0. pardalis; the denti- 

 tion of the two species is also similar, except that vomerine teeth form an angular 

 row on the vomer instead of a broad patch as in 0. pardalis. 



■ Abdomen naked, the scales otherwise distributed as in 0. pardalis: the form 

 of the fins also is similar, but in O. z'ariiis the origin of the anal is not much 

 nearer the snout than the base of the caudal. 



Colour-markings. Light green or yellowish, with irregular dark lines and 

 dots on the body, most prominent along the middle of the anterior half of the 

 body, and l.ielow the base of the dorsal fin, but they are variable and may be 

 absent : head darker, speckled with black dots ; some light and dark bars radiating 

 from the eye : vertical fins more or less variegated with light and dark markings, 

 the ventrals with blackish annuli. 



Described from four specimens 42-46 mm. long. The figure represents an 

 example 45 '2 mm. long, which is selected as the holotype. Two are females, and 

 contain well-developed young, the eyes of which are visible through the abdominal 

 walls ; one specimen, on being dissected, was found to have twenty-three young 

 curled up within the left oviduct, and about the same number in the right one : 

 these were of somewiiat different sizes, the largest being 7 '3 mm. long. 



This species is very similar to 0. pardalis, dift'ering principally in having 

 fewer dorsal and anal sjnnes. 



Loc. Kangaroo Island. Coll. \\'aite, 1917. 



OPHICLINUS PARDALIS sp. nov. 



I'late iv, fig. 2. 



D.lii, i: A.ii, 39: P.6: \M, 2: C.13. 



Head 5 7 in the length to the hypural : depth 1 '4, eye 5 'O in the head : snout 

 equal to the interorbital space, 1 ■(> in the c\e : innur \entral ray i 7, last dorsal 

 spine 3 '5, last anal ray 27 in the head: pectoral 1 '4 in the eye. 



