FISHES — WAITK. 



03 



J'amihj CREEDIADyE. 



CREE 1)1 A, %;%. 



(Fig. G). 



Creedia clathruquaniis, (^gilbv, Proc Liim. Soc. N.S.W., xxiii., 

 1898, p. 299. 



8tati<-)ii 33. 



Of this species, preAdoiisly known only from tlae type specimen, 

 we secured a single example; it was taken on the sandy stretches 

 of the Newcastle Bight in 24-27 fathoms. It is larger than the 

 type and measures 52 mm. in length, but differs otherwise only 

 by having the lower jaw the longer, possibly a sexual difference, 

 and being of more pronounced colour ; the smaller fish is colour- 

 less, with a few minute black spots along the base of the anal fin; 

 my example is brown, with a circular mass of spots on the occiput 

 and a row of spots near the margin of each scale. 



This specimen gives me the opportunity of figuring the species 

 (the accompanying cut, Fig. 6, being twice the natural size), and of 

 more fully describing the individual scales. 

 The ordinary scale of the body does not present 

 any peculiarity, being of the usual cycloid type; 

 - rpj^g scales of the 



lateral line are 



very peculiar, 



each has a broad 



insertion and is 



much narrowed 



at the free mar- 

 gin, the lower 



edge is straight but the median third 

 Fig. 6b. is serrated, the teeth averaging about 



seven in number. The upper margin 

 of the scale is irregular and towards its free or posterior half, 

 deeply excavated ; the space thus formed is partially occupied with 



