G3 
formed at Port Arthur. 
mark on the anterior dorsal. The sides of the head are 
finely granulated without radiations, and there are no 
denticulations on the edge of the orbit either in this or 
the preceding species. 
6. Apistcs marmoratus (Cuv. et Yal. 4, p. 416). The 
specimens correspond exactly with the description given 
in the work referred to, except that the first suborbitar 
has only one tooth anteriorly. The spine of that bone 
reaches in one specimen to the preoperculum, but in 
another it is one-third shorter, being in the latter case 
onl y j us * equal to the preopercular spine in length. 
/. Sebastes ttiaculatus (Cuv. et Val.). Two specimens 
in good order, when examined in reference to the account 
of the species in the work referred to, offer no discrepancy, 
except that the postorbitar spines are somewhat different 
from those of imperials , which maculatus is said closely 
to resemble. S. maculatus is an inhabitant of the seas 
of the Cape of Good Hope, and although a range from 
thence to Van Diemen’s Land may appear very great, it 
is not more extensive than that of the northern Sebastes , 
which has been taken on the coasts of Greenland, in the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the coast of Norway, and in 
the British Channel. 
8. Cheilodactylus carponemas (Cuv. et Val.), known 
locally as the Perch, and described as having, when 
fresh, a bright silvery hue with dark spots. 
9. Nemadactylus concinxus. The fish so designated 
is stated by the author to be one of those species whose 
natural position is difficult to ascertain, from their par¬ 
taking of the characters of several different groups. 
Viewed as the type of a new genus, Ncmadaclylus may 
be characterized as having none of the bones of the gill- 
cover armed or sculptured, the operculum itself being 
destitute of projecting points, but as differing from any 
described sparoid form in having simple inferior pectoral 
