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ON TWO NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF FISHES 
FROM AUSTRALIA. 
By J. Douglas Ogilby. 
( Communicated by the Secretary ). 
Percophid.e. 
Centropercis, gen.nov. 
BranchiostegalsC?) five; pseud obranchise present. Body elongate- 
oblong, compressed; head conical; cleft of mouth wide and mode- 
rately oblique; lower jaw the longer; eye lateral, partially directed 
upwards; gill-openings wide; gill-rakers stout, of moderate length, 
few in number; bones of head armed or radiate. Jaws, vomer 
and hyoid bones with well-developed, fixed teeth; palatine and 
pterygoid bones edentulous. Two dorsal fins, the first with six 
spines; the second more developed, similar to the anal; no semi- 
detached spines in front of the anal; ventrals thoracic; all the 
pectoral rays branched. Scales small, poriferous, those of the 
head cycloid, of the body ctenoid; body with regularly arranged 
series of naked bands. 
Centropercis nudivittis, sp.nov. 
B. v. (?) D. 6 1/20. A. 1/17. V. 1/5. P. 13. C. 15. 
Length of head four and one-third, height of body six and 
one-fourth in the total length; width of head two-thirds of its 
height and two-fifths of its length. Diameter of eye four and 
two-fifths in the length of the head: premaxilla trilobate, snout 
emarginate, in front; the latter a little longer than the diameter 
of the eye; interorbital space grooved, three-fifths of the diameter 
