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LORD HOWE ISLAND. 



COEIS SEMICIS'CTA, Bamsrij/.* 

 The type specimen was sent from Lord Howe by Capt. Armstrong, some 

 years ago ; the species appears to be rare everywhere, two only having come 

 to hand since that time, those being respectively from Broken Bay and Port 

 Jackson ; all three measure about ten inches. 



SCAEICHTHTS JBleeker. 



SCAEICHTIITS ATJEITUS, Ouv. <Sf Val. 



Young examples up to six inches in length are common in the rock-]}ools ; 

 all the specimens have nine anal rays. 



PSEUDOSCARUS, JBIeeker. 



PsEUDOSCAErS, sp. 



A twenty-six inch specimen, in an advanced stage of decomposition, was 

 picked up on the beach by Mr. Whitelegge, but is in so bad a state that I 

 am unable to determine the species. 



ANACANTHINI. 

 GADIDiE. 



LOTELLA, liatt]}. 



LoTELLA, sp. 



The only specimen I have seen was obtained by purchase in Eebruary, 

 1882, and is, besides being small — less than five inches in length — in such 

 bad condition as to render it impossible to determine the species with 

 accuracy. 



PLEURONECTIDJE. 



SOLEA, Xlein. 



SOLEA EAMSAir, Sp. IIOV. 

 Plate III, f. 4. 

 D. 71. A. 47. V. 5. C. 14. L. 1.87. 



The length of the head is one-fifth, the height of the body three-tenths of 

 the total length. The upper eye extends half its diameter in advance of the 

 lower ; the diameter is equal to the length of the snout, and the interorbital 

 space, which is scaly, is three-tenths of the same. The upper jaw overhangs 

 the lower, and is produced into a lobe. The cleft of the mouth hardly extends 

 beyond the anterior margin of the lower eye. The anterior nostril on the 

 colored side is tubular, and the snout is provided with a few filaments. 

 Teeth. — Distinct on the blind side. Fins. — The dorsal fin commences in 

 front of the middle of the lower eye, and ends one diameter of the eye from 

 the base of the caudal ; the anterior rays bear a filamentous appendage, 

 some of which, on the upper surface of the head, are as long as the ray itself: 

 the anal fin commences behind the vertical from the gill-openings : the 

 ventral fins are separate from the anal : pectorals absent : the height of the 

 pedicle between the terminations of the dorsal and anal finsis half of the length 

 of the caudal, which is equal to that of the head. Scales. — Ctenoid on both 

 sides, and extending a short distance up the rays of the vortical fins. The lateral 

 line is straight, and there is a second short line on the blind side from the 

 middle of the snout immediately below the base of the dorsal to beneath the 

 eighteenth ray of that fin. Colors. — Pale yellow with many small black spots 

 and short wavy lines on the head and body, which on the lateral line take the 

 form of streaks extending over from two to five scales ; the fins are hyaline, 

 all except the ventrals being closely dotted with white and black. 



A small example three inches in length was obtained by Mr. Saunders. 

 Register number, I. 1,951. 



* Described in the Proc-. Linn. Soe. N. S. Whiles, vii, 1882, p. 301. 



