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ICHTHYOLOGY 
NEOSEBASTES. 
I had in my last year's publication considered it as granted 
that the fish known in the Melbourne market as the Gurnet 
was the Centropogon Australis of White, but since then I have 
come to the conclusion that this last is unknown to me, and 
that the Gurnet is the Neosebastes Scorpceno'ides, described by 
M. Guichenot in the xiiith vol. of the " Memoires de la 
Societe Imperiale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg." I 
owe to our celebrated botanist, Baron Von Mueller, the paper 
concerning this fish. 
NEOSEBASTES PERCOIDES. 
Sebastes Percoides, Rich., Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 
p. 23, pi. 15, fig. 1. 
I have obtained several specimens of this sort, found in the 
Victorian sea, but all are in a dry state. 
It is evident, even on the stuffed specimens, that the general 
colour has been red, with four broad transverse brown bands, 
which do not extend to the lower part of the body. There are 
also traces of a similar band near the extremity of the caudal. 
The numbers of the rays are as follow :— D. 11 1/12. 
A. 3/5. C. 14. V. 1/5. P. 19. 
The largest of my normal specimens is under one foot long, 
but I have another specimen which is over thirteen inches, 
and which presents a singular conformation of the second 
dorsal, its spine being continued in a simple soft ray. The 
numbers would thus be 1st D. 10; 2nd, 11— but this is 
most probably accidental. 
SEBASTES ALPORTI. 
Very much like Percoides, and having also D. 11/^— A. 
3 £ p. 9, branched, and 9 simple rays. The general form is 
longer, the height being four times in the total length ; the 
head i's less than three times in the same ; the lower jaw is 
considerably longer than the upper one ; the spines of the 
prreoperculum are very strong and very sharp ; the operculum 
terminates in a long pointed flap-its spines are strong, the 
