DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TRIFTERYGIUM FROM 

 PORT JACKSON. 



By E. Pierson Ramsay, F.R.S.E., and J. Douglas Ogilby, F.L.S. 



(Notes from the Australian Museum). 



Tripterygium striaticeps, sp.nov. 



D. 3/14/11. A. 1/19. V. 2. P. 15-16. C. 13. L.l. 36. 

 L. tr. 8.* 



Length of the head four, of caudal fin five and a half to five 

 and two-thirds, of pectoral fin three and three-fourths to four, 

 height of the body beneath the origin of the second dorsal five 

 and two-thirds to five and three-fourths in the total length. The 

 eye is situated in the upper half of the head, and encroaches 

 considerably on the occipital profile ; its diameter is three and 

 three-fifths in the length of the head, and equal to or slightly less 

 than that of the snout, which is oblique, and a little convex, 

 while the occiput is flat. The interorbital space is concave, and 

 about four-ninths of the diameter of the eye. The cleft of tlie 

 mouth is slightly oblique, the jaws equal, and the maxilla extends 

 to the middle of the orbit. There is a short squarish multitid 

 tentacle above the postero-superior angle of the eye ; numerous 

 fine spine-like tentacles on the upper and hinder margins of the 

 eye. Upper jaw with a band of villiform teeth gradually 

 narrowing from the front, and an outer row of greatly enlarged 

 curved teeth ; lower with several rows of curved teeth anteriorly, 

 and a single lateral row. Vomer with an angular row of strong 

 teeth. The first dorsal fin commences rather behind the middle of 



* Counted along the oblique row between origm of third dorsal and the 

 anal fin. 



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