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truncated, separating the nasals rostrad and in contact with rostral, 

 post-f rentals not longer than pre-frontal, Vertical nearly equilateral : 

 occipitals large, each followed by a post-occipital : nasals moderate ; 

 loreal large, subtriangular, with the upper and lower edges rounded. 

 Temporals three, the upper anterior the largest : upper labials eight, 

 the sixth the largest, the fourth entering the orbit : scales in 21 

 rows, all the dorsals with a low and narrow keel not reaching the 

 tips, ventrals 1^8. 



Yellowish grey, the body and tail with 5-4 dark-brown dorsal 

 bands with narrow interspaces, the bands giving off inosculating 

 streaks, and blotches on the sides ; under surface yellowish, the 

 scutes narrowly dark edged, an indistinct dark mesian stripe, contin- 

 uous upon the anterior portion of the body beneath. 



One example. — Habitat, Cambridge Gulf, N W. Australia, 

 dedicated to the collector, Mr. W. H. Saville-Kent. 



List of Fish. — Those initialed (C.G.) obtain* d from Cambridge 

 Gulf, the remainder collected in the Port Darwin district. 



Lates calcarifer, Bl. ; Serranus hexagonatus, G. 4' V. ; T. 

 guttatus, Bl. ; Genyoroge notata, C . 4' V- ; Mesoprion roseogaster, 

 Jfel. ; M. Johnii, Bl. : Therapon sp. : Pristipoma hasta, C.G. ; 

 Pristipoma, sp. ; Chelmo rostratus, C. 4' V- 5 C truncatus, Knr. ; 

 Chrctodon aurofasciatus, Mel, ; Scatophagus semi-striatus ; Holo- 

 canthus danviniensis, n. *7>. ; Drepane punctata, C. 4' V. Upeneus 

 tragula, Rch. ; L^thrinus cocosensis, Blk. ; Sebastes, sp. ; Pterois 

 volitans, L. ; Synaucidium horridum, L. : Kurtus gulliYeri, East., 

 C.G. ; Polynemus Verekeri, n. sp., C.G- ; P. macrochir, Gth. y 

 C.G. ; Trichiurus savala, C. 4' C.G. ; Acanthurus annularis, 

 C\ 4f V' ; Caranx nobilis, Mel. t C. G. ; C. poolooso, Rtch., C.G. ; 

 Chorinemus lysan, Torsk. ; Platax arthriticus, B'L\ ; Equula 

 edentula, AL, C. G. ; Thynnus, sp. ; Echeneis naucrates, F., C.G. ; 

 Sillago gracilis, A M. ; Opisthognathus maculatus, A. M. ; Anten- 

 narius uropthalmus, Blk, : Platycephalus japonicus, C. 4' V. ; 



