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I am not certain that Qwella Zonata, Grunther (" Catal. Brit. 

 Mus.," p. 429), is not one of the striped varieties. 



MELA2ttCHTHYS SIMPLEX. ? 



Crenidens simplex ? Bichard., Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 



p. 120. 

 Gfirella simplex ? Gunther, Catal. Brit. Mus., p. 429. 



This sort is entirely similar to the preceding in general appear- 

 ance, and is confounded with it by the fishermen and fishmongers. 

 Its only difference consists in its teeth, which are more irregular, 

 and without any denticulations or lobes at their edge. I thought 

 for some time that these were old specimens, whose teeth had 

 been worn ; but they are generally smaller than the specimens 

 of Triscuspidata, still I very much doubt their forming a distinct 

 species. 



Nota. — Dr. Grunther, in the second volume (1863) of the 

 " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," p. 115, proposes a 

 genus Melambaphes , to contain a Victorian fish, which is said to 

 be the Glypliisodon nigroris of Cuvier and Valenciennes, but it is 

 impossible for me to recognise this last sort. Glypliisodon nigroris 

 was established on a specimen brought from Holland, and having 

 been in the cabinet of the Stadtholder ; its locality is unknown, 

 but it is almost certainly from the Dutch East Indies, as were 

 almost all the sorts coming from that Museum. The very few 

 descriptive words given by the Trench ichthyologists do not permit 

 to apply them in particular to any Australian species. Dr. Grunther 

 adds that this sort is the BlacTc Perch of the colonists (which is 

 the fish I have just described), but there can be no doubt that this 

 is Richardson's sort, and it cannot be Dr. Grunther's species, as he 

 says that it has the cheeks and opercles covered with very small 

 scales. 



NEOTEPHRCEOPS. 



Melanichthys or Girella is distinguished by its operculum without 

 scales and the moderately-sized scales of its body ; Tephrceops has 

 also thesame operculum,but its scales are very small. Thenewgenus 

 I propose, has the general form and small scales of the latter, but 

 the operculum and prseoperculum are covered with scales. The 

 teeth are tri-lobed on the edge, disposed in one external series, 



