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Intestinal tract short ; wide, without pyloric appen- 
dages. 
“ Carnivorous fishes. Most of the species live in 
the seas of the temperate regions of both hemi- 
spheres ; two are known to inhabit seas between the 
tropics.” 
Several are described from Tasmania and Swan River ; but I 
bave not yet observed any at Melbourne. 
GENTEISCID^. 
‘Torm of the body compressed, oblong or elevated; 
the anterior bones of the skull are much produced, 
and form a long tube, terminating in a narrow mouth. 
Teeth none. Body either covered with a cuirass or 
with non-confluent ossifications. Scales none, or 
small. Two dorsal fins; the spinous short, and with 
one of the spines strong ; the soft and the anal of 
moderate extent. V entral fins small, without spine, 
or rudimentary, abdominal. Branchiostegals three 
or four ; air-bladder large ; four gills and pseudo- 
branchise. Pyloric appendages none ; intestinal 
tract rather short. 
“ Mediterranean and northern shores of the At- 
lantic, eastern coasts of Africa, coasts of China, Ja- 
pan and Australia.” 
CentrUcus Ilumef'osus inhabits Australia ; but I have not 
seen it. 
