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having its spinous portion much longer than the other ; the 
first spine is rather short, the second about twice as long, the 
following about one-third longer; the fourth being the longest of 
all, and the following becoming shorter as they are situated 
more backwards. The longest spine is equal to the distance 
between the extremity of the muzzle and the centre of the 
eye. The soft portion of the dorsal is incomplete in my 
specimen ; caudal emarginated, of seventeen long rays ; anal 
with three spines, the second very large, flat, and arched, the 
soft portion incomplete ; the pectorals are slightly in front of 
the ventrals, they are rather small, and have fifteen rays ; 
the spine of the ventrals is long and slender. 
The body scales are very small, and number about forty- 
five on the longitudinal line, and about twenty-two on the 
transverse one ; there are no scales on [the spinous portion of 
the fins (the only one preserved on my specimen). 
The colour is of a light yellow, with six broad longitudinal 
streaks of a fine black on the body ; the two inferior ones 
curved downwards ; the dorsal has also a blue band, but the 
other fins are of a uniform yellow. 
The specimen is not quite three inches long and very 
incomplete. 
This sort must be very nearly allied to Choet. Strigaius, 
and I should have united it with it if it had not been that 
the operculum is not rounded but has a strong emargination, 
and that the denticulations of the operculum seem still 
stronger in the Australian than in the Indian species ; its scales 
I appear also to be less numerous than in the latter. In all 
cases they both belong to the same genus. 
TRIGLA AMGENA. 
Scales very small, those on the lateral line without any 
armature ; snout elongate ; upper profile concave ; the anterior 
part of the head rather bilobed ; the space between the 
eyes is very concave, and is less than the diameter of the 
eye ; this space has on each side several longitudinal strise ; 
a cranulated ridge in front of the orbit ; the cheeks granu- 
