CONTRIBUTION 
TO THE 
ICHTHYOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA. 
No. VIII. — FISHES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
The Rev. Mr. Bostock, the learned clergyman of Free- 
mantle, has most kindly forwarded me a considerable number 
of the fishes that live in the part of Western Australia where 
he resides. 
Mr. Bostock deserves the greatest praise for the zeal, 
activity, and intelligence that he has, for many years, shown 
to the cause of natural science, and all parts of zoology owe 
him much. The number of new insects and rare shells he has 
discovered is very considerable, and it will be seen that his 
ichthyological researches have been no less valuable. 
EDELIA. 
, Seven branchiostigals ; teeth, all similar, rather large, 
slender, arched, crowded on each jaw and on the palatine 
bones ; no canine ; two dorsals only continuous at the base ; 
the first with seven spines ; the anal with three ; prfeopercu- 
lum smooth ; operculum with two spines ; scales rather large 
and rather adherent ; lateral line interrupted. 
This new genus of Percidce comes near Microperca, and has 
the general form of Psammoperca. It has also some connec- 
tion with Ambasis, but has no recumbent spine in front of the 
dorsal. 
