McCULLOCH AND WaITE — FiSHES FROM SoUTH AUSTKAI,IA 67 



on each side of the tongue: eye small : moutli oblique, maxillary naked posteriorly: 

 first dorsal spine thick and si^iny, terminated by a minute fleshy process: second 

 and third spines well develoi)ed and co\ered with skin: soft dorsal high and long, 

 with fifteen rays: anal opposite the end (}f the dorsal, with eight to ten rays : 

 |isciidobrachiuni large and uKjbile, with the pore-like gill-opening placed below 

 the middle of its length, 



Tudarged spines on each side of jjores define a mucigerous svstem on the 

 head and body: these commence before the eye, and extend backward to aliove 

 the shoulder; thence they cur\e duwnw;ird to a point abo\e the origin of the 

 anal, and disappear on the lower portion of the tail: another row extends from 

 the mandibular symphysis, and running backward, bifurcates, one branch extend- 

 ing around the preopercular border, and the other towards the i^seudobrachium. 



Type. E. crassispiiia sp. nov. 



This genus differs from Antcnvarius in having fifteen instead of twelve 

 dorsal rays, and its anterior spine is thick and spiny instead of tentacular : the 

 spinate skin distinguishes it from H istioplii yiic Gill. 



ECHINOPHRYNE CRASSISPINA sp. nov. 



Plate vi. fig. 2. 



I^.i, i, i, 15: A.8-10: P.io-n : V.5 : Co. 



Depth I •" in the length to the hy])ural joint; head, to end of operculum, 

 2-6-2 -g in the same: eye i ■2-1 •=; in the snout: first dorsal spine 7 in the head. 



Body deep, compressed, the back ele\ated.. Mead deeper than long: mouth 

 oblique, maxillary reaching to below the posterior margin of the eye: eye small, 

 rounded : nostrils superolateral, the anterior with a low skinny margin : skin 

 everywhere covered with upstanding prickles, which are usually bifurcate spines, 

 but are sometimes trifurcate ; they are of unequal size, larger prickles being 

 evenly distributed among the surrounding smaller ones. The mucigerous system 

 of pores is defined by rows of large bifurcate spines placed on each side of the 

 openings: enlarged spines form three groups on the ujjper portion of the maxil- 

 lary, and a few are present en the cheek. 



First dorsal spine comparatively thick and covered with spines ; it is about 

 as long as the distance between the tip of the snout and the hinder border of the 

 eye, and onlv its extreme tip is fleshy: second and third spines well (le\eloped, 

 the second a little longer than the first, the third much larger: the rays of all the 

 fins except the caudal are simple: median rays of the soft dorsal slightly longer 

 than the other.s', the last separated by a wide space from the caudal : anal short, 

 rounded, and well separated from the caudal : pectoral, ventral and caudal 

 rounded, the latter with bifurcate ravs. 



