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NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN FISHES 
2nd. equal and highest, f- of the length of the snout ; soft dorsal much 
lower than the spinous, from which it is separated by an interspace, 
which is rather more than twice the length of its base : anal 
originating a little behind and somewhat shorter than the dorsal : 
lower caudal lobe slightly the longer, 5± in the length of the body ; 
least depth of caudal peduncle rather more than the eye : pectoral 
with 13 rays, j of the length of the snout and -|- of that of the body : 
ventral inserted well behind the pectoral, below the middle of the 
spinous dorsal, and midway between the tip of the mandible and the 
rudimentary rays of the caudal ; hinder border truncate ; spine 
slender and nearly as long as the outer ray, w T hich is f of the snout. 
Green above, silvery below : soft dorsal and caudal yellow, the latter 
with a broad posterior blackish marginal band. [Named for Edgar 
E. Waite, author of many valuable papers on Australian biology]. 
Type in the Queensland Museum. 
Total length of type 250 millimeters. 
Coast of New South Wales. [Port Jackson District]. 
Some years ago "Waite (Kec. Austr. Mus., iii, 1900, p. 210) 
called attention to certain discrepancies between the description of 
Sphyrcena novce-hollandice in my work on the "Edible Fishes of New 
South Wales " and that of its original describer, and remarked that 
" it is possible that we may have a third species in New South 
Wales." This supposition is fully borne out by the specimen now 
before me, in which the positions of the spinous dorsal and ventral 
fins are very different , the form is much more robust, the eye 
larger, the pectoral much longer, etc. 
BERYCIDiE. 
OSTICHTHYS AUSTKALXS (Castelnau). 
CASTELNAU'S SQUIRREL-FISH. 
Myripristes australis Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr., p. 4, 1875 : Cape York. 
D. xi 15 or 16; A. iv 13 ; P. 15 or 16. Sc. 3— 28— 6i Depth 
of body 2|, length of head 3 in the length of the body. Snout 2f • 
in the diameter of the eye, which is |- of the length of the head. 
Interorbital region flat, its width 1|- in the diameter of the eye. 
Maxillary extending to below the hinder border of the pupil, its 
length If in that of the head, the width of its distal extremity 2± 
in the diameter of the eye. Hinder limb of preopercle linear and 
vertical with a moderate inclination forward and feebly serrated, the 
broadly rounded angle and lower limb evenly and much more 
strongly serrated ; opercular spine short, with several denticulations 
