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from the eyes, and one below it ; the spaces between them are 
silvery. All the fins are dusky with narrow white edges ; the soft 
dorsal may bear several rows of rather large brown spots, while 
several still larger ones are present on the caudal. 
I have examined fifteen specimens, including a well graduated 
series, varying in length from 163-575 rnm. from the tip of the 
snout to the end of the middle caudal rays. Of these, four are from 
South Australia. Seven, including the type of Psilocranium coxii 
are either from the neighbourhood of Sydney, or purchased in the 
Sydney markets, and one is from the Melbourne market. The three 
others are said to have come from the Clarence River, New South 
Wales, but I do not consider the evidence of their capture so far 
north as satisfactory. 
Macleay compared his type of Psilocranium coxii with the four 
South Australian specimens mentioned above which he identified 
as Chilodactylns nigyicans and Dactylophora semimacnlata} He noted 
its generic identity with Richardson’s species, but did not recognise 
that they were all merely growth stages of the one species. I 
forwarded one of the smallest of these to Mr. Ogilby for comparison 
with the type of De Vis’ Dactylophora, and he informs me that it 
cannot be separated from that species. He also agrees that it is 
the young of C. nigricans. 
Klunzinger has also described this young stage as C. nebidosa, 
and Steindachner has given a beautiful figure of it under that name 
This may be compared with the very rough figure of Psilocranium 
to show the difference between the young fish and the adult. 
Family KYPHOSIDAE. 
KYPHOSUS SYDNEYANUS, Gunther. 
Pimelepterus sydneyantts, Ogilby, Ed. Fish. N.S. Wales, 1893, p. 40, pi. XVI. 
Kyphosus sydiieyaniis, Zietz, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., XXXIII, 1909, p. 267. 
A single specimen, 235 mm. long, from Houtman Abrolhos, is 
similar to others from Port Jackson. Zietz has recorded the species 
from St. Vincent Gulf. 
1 See Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, VIII., 1883, p. 441. 
