A SECOND SPECIES OP ENOPLOSUS. 
("OLD WIFE" FISH.) 
By C. W. De VIS, M.A. 
ENOPLOSUS SEROTINUS, n.s. 
D. 7-1/14 A. 3/15 P. 12 V. 1/5. 
Upper anterior profile moderately concave, the mouth not 
curved upward above tne axis of the body and tail ; the body 
not greatly elevated, its depth going 1^ times into its length, 
and rather more than twice into the length of the head and 
body; preorbital armed with five teeth; anterior nasal operculum 
semicircular, rising from a procurved elevated basal ridge ; pre- 
operculum with two large teeth at its angle, nineteen smaller on 
its hinder and thirteen on its lower edge, its cleavage upward 
rather high, reaching to a line from the centre of the caudal 
peduncle to the upper fourth of the eye ; third spine of first dorsal 
two-thirds of the depth of the body at its insertion ; spine of the 
soft dorsal 2i times repeated equals the depth of the body at its 
insertion ; ventral spine 2^- times repeated equals the height of the 
body over its insertion, its first and second rays barely reach the 
anal. Scales small in well-defined, flat or tumid rhombohedrons, 
striated at the base concentrically ; lateral line distinctly, but per- 
haps irregularly tubulated, the tubules in places coarse. Length of 
head and body, 163 mm., of the head, 50 mm. Colouring. — All 
certain traces of parti-colouring, if it once existed, have succumbed 
to the destructive action of alcohol. The specimen is in so rigid 
and dilapidated a condition that no further information can be 
gathered from it. 
Type in Queensland Museum. 
Locality : Cairns. 
