McCULLOCH AND \\'AITE— FiSHES FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA 59 



Elongate, compressed. Plead about as deep as broad at the preoperculiim, 

 flattened above, and tapering to the pointed snout : lower jaw projecting beyond 

 the upper: anterior nostril in a tube behind the lij): rows of pores surround tlie 

 eye. nuchal and occipital regions, the margin of the preoperculum, mandilile anrl 

 snout: eye sc])arated by the flat interorbital space, and situated in the anterior 

 p^ortion oi the head: li])s broad: maxillary reaching to below the hinder margin 

 of the ])upil, and expanded and rounded posteriorly: preopercular margin hidden: 

 operculum without spines, the posterior lobe with a deep cleft: gill-membranes 

 free from tlie isthmus: teeth proportionately large, forming broad bands in each 

 jaw anteriorly, becoming uniserial laterally; they are obtusely conical, the outer 

 rows slightly larger than the others : a broad patch of similar teeth on the \omer : 

 tongue and palatines toothless. 



Body covered with small scales, which are loosely imbedded and scarcely 

 imbricate; their free edge appears to be slightly ciliated: they commence on the 

 nape, and are very small on the sides of the abdomen : head scaleless. 



Fins. iJorsa! fin beginning well l)ehind the end of the operculum : its spines 

 increase in length backwards, and the single ray is connected with the caudal by 

 membrane: origin of the anal almost twice as far from the tip of the caudal as 

 from that of the snout; its rays are simple and increase in length backwards, the 

 last united A\ith the caudal: ventrals inserted beneath the middle of the oper- 

 culum : the spine is completely hidden in the skin, and each ray is divisible basally, 

 the inner the longer: pectoral minute, with rudimentary simple rays, and con- 

 nected I)}' a fold of skin with the u]iper lobe of the operculum: caudal obtusely 

 pointed. 



Colours. Light brown in spirits, with numerous lighter spots together with 

 dark brown spots and longitudinal markings. Head reticulated with dark brown 

 dots and lines radiating from the eye: two blackish streaks extend backwards, 

 whicii are separated by a white interspace, the upper forming a large black blotch 

 on tlie operculum : dor-s;!l in \ f.riegated with lighter and darker markings of 

 iiregular form, wliich ;ire also present on the anal and caud.d 



Described and figured from a single specimen, 80 mm. long, preserved in the 

 South Australian Museum. 



Loc. Streaky Bay, Great Australian Bight. 



PERONEDYS Steindachner. 



Pcrojicdys Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien. Lxxxviii, 1884, p. 1083 {P. 



angiiillaris, Steindachner) . 

 Eucciitronotus Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxiii, 1898, p. 294 (£. cietzi 



Ogilbyj. 



