420 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TRIPTERYGIUM FROM PORT JACKSON. 



the opercle, and is lower than the two subsequent fins ; the second 

 commences behind the base of the pectoral, and is disconnected 

 with the first, while the third commences above the eighth 

 anal ray, and is separated from the second by an interspace of 

 three scales. The anal fin commences beneath the ninth ray of 

 the second dorsal. The pectoral fin is long and pointed, about 

 equal in length to the head, and reaching to the fifth anal ray. 

 The caudal fin is slightly rounded. The lateral line is inter- 

 rupted opposite the termination of the third dorsal fin. Colors 

 — reddish-brown, with six or seven broad darker indistinct 

 transverse bands, broader than the interspaces ; head with a 

 dark brown light-edged band between the eye and the sub- 

 opercle. 



The two specimens, from which our description is taken, measure 

 H and If inches respectively, and were obtained under stones 

 between tide-marks at Tailor Bay, Port Jackson, by Mr. E. 

 Mcintosh. Register numbers, I. 1693-4. 



