60 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Body elongate and compressed, the head (le]iressed. Scales minute, deeply 

 imhedded, non-imbricate. and present on the caudal |)orlion only; lateral line 

 short. Head naked, with series of large open pores. .Snout short, rounded: 

 mandilile projecting: mouth a little oblique, with thick lips: maxilla expanded 

 distally. and largely exposed: no tentacles or barbels: anterior nostrils tubular: 

 eves supero-lateral : teeth small, conical, in several rows anteriorly in each jaw, 

 uniserial laterally : vomerine teeth present, palatines toothless : gill-openings wide, 

 the membranes united across the isthmus: ]iseudobranchiae present, gill-rakers 

 rudimentary: six branchiostegals. A single dorsal fin compose<l almost entirely 

 of spines, and confluent with the caudal: anal composed principally of simple 

 rays, and united with the caudal: ventrals minute, jugular: pectorals vestigial, the 

 rudimentary rays enclosed in a membrane which is united with the oiierculum. 



PERONEDYS ANGUILLARIS Steindachner. 



Prroiicdys auijiiiUai'is .Steindachner. .Sitzb. Aka<l. \\'is>. W'ien. Ixxxviii, 1884, 



p. 1083. 

 Eitccntronotus zictzi ' )gill)y, Proc. T.inn. .Soc. N,.S. Wales, .xxiii. i8(j8, p. 2(^4, 



T'late V, fig. 2. 



Br.vi: D.lxxxi, 3: A.ii. ^- : \'.2 : C.13. 



Head and body 2 '5 in the total length: head 7 'd in the same, and 2 'oy in its 

 distance from the vent: depth at the \'ent 14 '2 in the total length, and i '8 in the 

 head : eye as long as its distance from the mandibular symphysis, 5 '5 in the head : 

 interocular space much narrower than the eye. 8 -6 in the head : caudal 2-1 in the 

 head. 



Head depressed, with the gill-covers expanded, naked, with rows of open 

 ])ores on the snout, occiput, round the eyes, preopercular margins, and on each 

 side of the mandible ; others extend along the groove above the opercles to the 

 lateral line, and a series crosses the neck at its junction with the he;id : eye sujjero- 

 lateral. situated in the anterior portion of the head, and separated from the 

 maxilla by a narrow suborbital space : interorbital space concave : snout broadly 

 rounded, its upper profile slightly convex : mandiljle projecting well beyond the 

 premaxillarics : mouth a little oblique, \\ilh thick fleshy lips: maxilla expanded 

 posteriorly, and almost reaching to below the hinder orbital liorder : anterior 

 nostrils tubular, and projecting beyond the ui>per lip. .Xbout three rows of small 

 conical teeth in front of each premaxillary, the outer only of which extends on to 

 the side of the jaw : three or four rows of subequal conical teeth in the anterior 

 part of the mandible : they become uniserial and larger laterally, and extend 

 further back than those of the jM-emaxillar}- : some spaced conical teeth on the 

 vomer, most of which arc arranged in a single curved series: palatines naked: 



