1896. ] FROM THE UPPER SHIRE RIVER. 919 
COREMATODUS SHIRANUS, sp. n. (Fig. 4.) 
Fig. 4. 
Corematodus shiranus. 
Depth of body equal to length of head, 4 total length. Snout 
very broad, with steep, convex profile; eye a little nearer gill- 
opening than end of snout, its diameter 44 times in length of 
head, twice in interorbital width, and greater than depth of pre- 
orbital; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye ; cheek 
with 4 rows of scales below the eye; opercle and interorbital region 
scaleless; limbs of preopercle forming a right angle. Gill-rakers 
moderately long, 12 on lower part of anterior arch, last bifid. 
Dorsal XVI 10; spines increasing in length to the last, which is 
2 length of head. Anal IIT 8; third spine longest, as long as but 
thicker than middle dorsals. Caudal peduncle 12 as long as deep. 
