ACANTHOPTBRYGII. 
Pisces IG 
Squamipinnes. 
Chctilodon aureo-fasciatus, Macleay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 351, 
pi. viii. fig. 3, Port Darwin; C. ocellipennis, id. op. cit. iii. p. 33, pi. iii. 
fig. 1, King George’s Sound : spp. nn. 
Toxotes carpentariemis, sp. n., Castlenau, 1. c. iii. p. 47, Norman 
river. 
Mullidac. 
Parupeneus spilurus, Blkr., redescribed and figured ; Bleeker, Arch. 
Neerl. xiii. p. 63, fig. 3. 
Capture of Red Mullet in December in Cornwall ; Zool. 1878, p. 61. 
Sparid^. 
Lethrinus punctulafuSf sp. n., Macleay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 351, 
pi. viii. fig. 2, Port Darwin. 
Chrysophrys australis, Gthr., figured ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Viet. Dec. i. 
pi. iv. 
Hoplopagrus guentheri, Gill, completely described and figured by Stein- 
dachner, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixxvii. Abth. i. p. 379, pis. i. & ii. 
Chrysophrys hastg, C. V. Bleeker determines by comparison of speci- 
mens the specific distinctness of Chrysophrys cuvieri, Day, and C. schlegeli, 
Blkr. The first is described and figured. Verb. Ak. Amst. (2) xiii. 
pp. 43-46, pi. 
Oirbhitidj:. 
Chilodactylus rubro-fasciatus, sp. n., Castlenau, Z. c. iii. p. 140, Mel- 
bourne. 
Beridia, ? g. n. Head and body very compressed ; general form oval ; 
head very large, with its anterior profile strongly concave in front of the 
eyes, and convex below ; teeth very numerous, very small, granular, none 
at the lower jaw nor on the palate ; two dorsals well developed, the first 
not quite as long as the second, of 8 spines, the second with 3 ; caudal 
very long ; anal large, with one spine ; ventrals behind the pectorals ; 
pectorals large, with the upper ray branched and all the others simple. 
B. Jlava, sp. u., id. tom. cit. p. 229, pi. ii. Victoria. 
ScORPiENID.®. 
Sebastes. H. Sauvage, in “Description de Poissons Nouveaux on im- 
parfaitement connus de la collection du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle,” 
is unable to recognize the value of the subgeneric divisions of this genus, 
designated by Gill as Sebastichthys and Sebastosomus, but admits as 
natural a typical group composed of S. norvegicus, septentrionalis, and 
viviparus ; another, for the southern species, S. dactylopterus, huhli, and 
madur crisis ; and a third, which he names Pseudosebastes, consisting of a 
single species, S. bougainvillii, pp. 111-115. He then characterizes B. 
