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the title of Latris Mortoni, such specific title being associated 

 with the name of Mr. Alexander Morton, the curator of the 

 Tasmanian Museum, to whom I am indebted for much 

 assistance in working up the literature of the species allied to 

 the varieties described in this communication. 



The second specimen to which I have to draw attention is a 

 representative of the genus Clinus, belonging to the family 

 Bleniidse, and including a number of shore-frequenting fishes 

 which rarely exceed a length of a few inches. A single species, 

 Clinus despicillatus, Richards, is recorded in Mr. Johnston's 

 " Catalogue of Tasmanian .Fishes." It attains to a length of 

 four or five inches, and is one of the forms popularly Icoown as 

 " bullies " that may be abundantly obtained in rock pools or 

 lurking under stones at low water. A second Australian 

 (Port Phillip) species, Clinus marmoratus, Klunz. — length 15 

 centimetres, or say 7 inches — is included in the supplement to 

 Macleay's " Catalogue of Australian Pishes, 1884." Upwards 

 of twenty additional species of the genus are described in Dr. 

 Grunther's " Universal Catalogue of Pishes." A large portion 

 of these are inhabitants of the seas around the Cape of Grood 

 Hope, and the remainder inhabit the American coast line and 

 the Chinese Seas. The specimen I have to introduce is 

 remarkable for its comparatively large size — 14 inches — and so 

 far as I have been able to determine it differs in several 

 essential structural points from any of the various species 

 hitherto described. An approximate idea of the dimensions, 

 general aspect, and the diversified tints of the living fish may 

 be obtained in reference to the water-coloured drawing from 

 life herewith submitted. These together with the essential 

 structural details are further embodied in the following 

 diagnosis : — 



Clinus Johnstoni. Nov. Sp. 



D 2-3- 32-33- 5 | A 2- 25-26 | T13. 



Height of body, contained about four times, the length of 

 the head about five times, in the total length ; snout, conical, 

 the lower jaw somewhat prominent ; a large erect foliacous 

 branched tentacle developed above each orbit, a similarly large 

 tentacle, with six slender subulate ramifications, developed 

 from each nostril, and directed forwards. A single row of 

 isolated, incurved, conical teeth, developed throughout the 

 outer edge of the upper jaw ; a crescentic patch of thickly set, 

 minute, villiform teeth, developed upon the inner edge of the 

 premaxilte, and a corresponding patch of smaller dimensions 

 developed on the vomer, no teeth on the palatines ; a series of 

 six or seven isolated conical teeth, of larger size than those of 

 the upper jaw, developed along each side of the lower jaw, 

 the symphasis of the mandibular region occupied by a 

 crescentic patch of closely approximated small sized teeth of 



