23 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
LABRIDiE. 
Platyylossus immaculatus, sp. n., Macleay, 1. c. p. 362, pi. x. fig. 1, Port 
Darwin. 
Anampses neo-guinaicus, sp. n., Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. xiii. p. 57, fig. 4, 
New Guinea. 
Lahrichthys nigro-marginatiis, sp. n., Macleay, op. cit. iii. p. 35, pi. iii. 
fig. 3, Port Jackson. 
Chilinus unifasciatus^ sp. n., Streets, 1. c. p. 82, Fanning Islands. 
Gomphosus undulatus,. sp. n., id. I, c. p. 85, Fanning Islands. 
Trochocopm rufus, sp. n., Macleay, 1. c. p. 35, pi. v. fig. 3, King George’s 
Sound. 
Olistherops hrunneus, sp. n., id. l.c. p. 36, pi. v. fig. 1, Port Jackson. 
Heteroscarus castelnaui, sp. n., id. ibid. pi. v. fig. 2, Port Jackson. 
Scarus axillaris, sp. n,, Steindachuer, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixxvii. Abth. i. 
p. 384, pi. iii. fig. 1, N. Australia. 
Pseudoscarus jonesi, sp. n., Streets, 1. c. p. 80, Fanning Islands. 
Gerridj:. 
Gerres profundus, sp. n., Macleay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 350, 
Port Darwin. 
Embiotocidj:. 
Dacentrus liicens, g. & sp. nn., afterwards found to be a Hysterocarpus, 
perhaps identical with H. trashi, Gibb.; Jordan, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 
iv. p. 667, Texas. 
Chromidj:. 
Acara sub-ocularis, p. 696, hyposticta, p. 697, Cope, P. Am. Phil. Soc. 
xvii., Peru, spp. nn. 
Paracara, g. n. Dentes : maxillis pluriseriati conici acuti serie externa 
fortiores, pharyngeales compress! acuti infra apicem emarginati. Corpus 
oblongum. Caput vertice, fronte, genis, operculisque squamatum. Prae- 
operculum edentulum. Squamae capite et trunco antice cycloideae, trunco 
medio et postice ctenoideae, lateribus 30 circ. in serie longitudinali. Pro- 
cessus arcus branchialis subelongati simplices antice denticulati. Pinnae 
dorsalis et analis alepidotae, dorsalis spinis [12] et radii 10, analis spinis 
3 et radii 9 ; B. 5. P. typus, sp. n., Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amst. (2) xii. 
p. 193, fig. 3, Madagascar. 
Par etroplus poly actis, sp. n., Bleeker, 1. c. p. 195, fig. 2, Madagascar. 
ANACANTHINI. 
Gadid.e. 
Melanonus, g. n. Head and body rather compressed, covered with 
cycloid scales of moderate size, and terminating in a long tapering tail 
without caudal ; eye of moderate size ; mouth anterior and lateral ; both 
jaws with narrow bands of villiform teeth, vomer and palatines with wery 
