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rounded and but little acclivous from the fox'chead to the dorsal fin, its width 2*1, 
its depth 1-15, in its length, which is 8 to 3-25 in that of the body. Snout short 
and ol)tuse, with strongly convex, anteriorly sulwertieal profile, its length 14 in 
the eye-diameter, which is 2-65 to 2*9 in the length of the headj interorbital 
region mesially flattened, its ividth 3-2 in the head. ]\louth small and oblique, 
the jaws equal ; maxillary extending to below the anterior border of the eye. 
Scales 5/5b/19. Lateral line forming a long shallow curve to about the 
first tliird of the pedxincle. 
Dorsal fin originating above the opercular flap, with xi, i 20 rays, the 
spinous portion 14 in the soft ; spines weak and fiexil)le, the 5th tlie longest, 2 to 
2*25 in the length of the head, the last spine short and isolated; soft dorsal low, 
about one sixth lower than the spinous. Caudal forked, the middle rays 14 in 
the upper lobe, which is 345 in the ])ody-length. Anal originating ])elow the 1st 
dorsal ray, Avith iii 19 rays, spines short, the 3rd the longest, 2*3 in the anterior 
rays, Avhieh are 24 in the length of the head. Pectoral obtusely pointed, Avith 
21 rays, its lengtli 345 to 3-25 in that of the body; 7th ray longest, reaching to 
the vertical from the 3rd anal ray. Ventral inserted l)elow the last (piarter of 
the 2 )ectoral-base, the spine short and feeble, 24 in the 2nd and longest ray, 
Avhich is l-S in the length of the body and reaches to the 2nd anal spine. 
Gill-rakers short and slender, 7-|-16 on the anterior arch, the longest 1*3 
in the gill-fringes and 8-b in the length of the head. 
Pale yelloAvish ])roAvn, every scale but especially those above the lateral 
line so closely crowded Avith dark broAvn dots as to give the fish a dark 
apixearance ; lower surface of head and abdomen faintly tinged Avith orange ; 
cheeks and ])ostorbital region dark brown. Dorsal fins blackish; caudal 
brownish; anal, pectorals, and ventrals yelloAV, the former narroAvly tipped Avith 
Avhite, the latter broadly Avith lavender. 
Efyrnolotjjj : — Named after ]\[r. Charles AVilliam Hill, Lightkeeixer at 
CoAvan CoAvan, to Avhom we are indebted for the specimen. 
Described from two iMoreton Bay examjAles, measuring respectively 112 
and 87 millim. They AA'ere ol)tained at Cowan CoAA'an, iM.B., and Southport, and 
the larger exanqxle, Avhich has been chosen as th(^ tyixe, Avas presented by i\Ir. C. W. 
Hill, to Avhom I have great 2 >leasure in dedicating it. Its register number in the 
Queensland i\Iaseum is 1. 14/2165. 
Family POMADASID^. 
PLECTORHYNCHUS MULTIVITTATUS (Macleay). 
Diagramma mullivUtatum Maeleay, Uroc. Linn. Soc. N. S. AVales, ii, pt. 4, June 1878, 
p. 349, pi. vii, fig. 2. 
Type locality: — Poi4 DarAAun, Northern Territory. 
Body deeply suboA^ate and compressed, the dorsal contour much more 
arched than the ventral, its Avidth 2-55 in its depth, Avhich is 245 in the length 
