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former with i 7 rays ; anal with iii 8 rays, originating far in advance 
of the second dorsal ; caudal fin feebly eniarginate, the peduncle 
stout ; pectoral fin long and falciform, with 15 rays ; axillary scale 
short, the pore inconspicuous ; outer ventral ray not longer than 
the second, the inner free. Gill-rakers numerous, slender, rather 
short. [Sgualus, a shark ; mugil, a mullet : in allusion to its 
flattened head and inferior mouth]. 
Coast of Queensland. 
Type Mugil nasutus de Vis. 
SrHYIl/ENTD E. 
SFIIYRiEKA WAXTII sp. nov. 
WAITE'S SEA-PIKE. 
D. v, i 9 ; A. ii 9 ; 8c. 11—128—14; L. 1. 128; Vert. 12 + 12= 21, 
Body robust and somewhat compressed, its width -f of its depth, 
which is \ of its length. Depth of head rather less than the 
postorbital region, its length a little more than \ of that of the body. 
Diameter of eye 2^ in the length of the snout and 5-| in that of the 
head. Interorbita! region feebly convex, mesially traversed by a 
pair of low, widely divergent ridges, wdiich extend in slightly 
convergent lines on the snout as far as the level of the premaxillary 
processes, where they again become divergent ; interorbita! width 
t>i in the length of the head. Maxillary not reaching to the vertical 
from the eye, from which it is distant f of a diameter, its length f 
of that of the head, its greatest width, which is at the upper predistal 
angle, rather less than half the eye. Lower jaw without fleshy 
appendage. Premaxillaries with about 60 small subequal teeth on 
each ramus, divided into irregular groups by the occasional absence 
of a tooth ; anteriorly with two pairs of large cultriform canines, the 
anterior pair erectf the posterior pair much the larger and strongly 
declined backwards : palatine bones with 3 strong compressed 
trenchant teeth anteriorly, succeeded by a row of small teeth : 
1 mandible with a series of 14 widely separated teeth, about 7 of which,, 
on and behind the middle of the jaw, are somewhat enlarged ; a 
single median compressed canine, directed backwards, anteriorly. 
Opercle without spinous point. A single elongate gill-raker on the 
lower branch of the anterior arch just in front of the angle, its length 
J- of the diameter of the eye. Cheeks and opercles scaly ; upper 
surface of head naked. Spinous dorsal originating above the tip of 
the appressed pectoral, its distance from the tip of the snout 2-§- in 
the length of the body; dorsal spines weak and flexible, the 1st. and 
