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D. X-I, 26, I, second spine p||pLonged filament equal to I /5 in 
entire length of specimen,, first branc^fcl ray 2 /p in head; A. II, 25, I, 
* ■ Jfr ' ~ 
1 y p Mft 
second branched ray 3 / 5 ; caudal l^Jp slightly emarginate behind; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 4'Vgj j^toral 1 ^/ 3 ; ventral 2 ^/ 5 * 
Upper half of boctajm^ht brown, lower half paler to whitish. Iris 
silvery white, r'ihs pa legfbrownish. 
-N v i 
■JS.S.P. East 
11668 
S«l 
es. Dr. H.C. Wood. Length 195 mm 
Family Arripidae ^ — t , / 3L / 
Body elongate, fusiform^»§ll compressed. Head moderate or small. 
Snout conic. byes lateral, advanced in' 
iouth cleft lateral, oblique. 
Teeth villiforxa or car diform, in jaws and/on folate. Preopercle denticulate. 
Gill openings large. Air bladder simple. Verte||rae 25, of which 15 caudal. 
Scales of moderate size. Lateral line completejp Dorsals continious, with 
slender and rather feeble spines, similar in j|tal* Paired fins small, short, 
subequal, though ventrals thoracic. 
One genus, represented in sou^lrn Australian and, ]\ew Zealand seas. 
If 
An aberrant percoid family, known chi ply by their feeble dentition and fin 
spines. 
Genus ^Flpis Jenyns 
*\ 
Arripis JLliYi'IS, Zool 
Beagle, Fish., vol. 4, 1840, p. 13. (.Type 
Centropri s tes geor|||.anus VALER Cl ERNES, m onotypio. 
r J 
Mulloides (S 6 LANDi£R)RljpARDSON, Rep. XII Meet. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 
S’ ’t 
/ 1842(1843), p. 16. Centropristes (Mulloides) sspidissimus 
(SOLAN DiR) RICHARDSON *fe sciaena trutta SCRLLIDER, monotypic (preclude, 
Mulloides BLEEKSR, 1849 i?%ullid(ae ( )J 
