length or 3 to 3 1/8 in head. Head width 1 5/6 in its length. 
Snout obtuse, much shorter than eye, length 2/3 to = its 
width. Eye large, impinging on upper profile, and hind pupil 
edge about midway in head length. Mouth moderate, oblique, 
jaws even. Maxillary partly concealed by narrow preorbital, 
reaches beyond front eye edge though not quite to pupil. 
Teeth very fine, in narrow bands in jaws, along msxillary 
edge and across vomer. Muzzle quite cavernous. Interorbital 
. 
level. Gill-rakers 7 - 23, lanceolate, about 1/3 longer than 
filaments or 2 1/6 in eye. Scales narrowly imbriceated, ex- 
posed edges mostly entire, with 3 or 4 basal points and ab- 
out 43 to 48 parallel basal circuli. Spinous dorsal inserted 
midway between hind pupil or eye edge and caudal base, first 
spine 2 2/5 or 2 7/8 in head. Soft dorsal inserted at first 
2/5 in space between spinous dorsal and caudal base, 2 to 
21/6 in head. Anal inserted well before soft dorsal origin, 
first branched ray about 2 in head. Caudal (damaged) forked. 
Pectorsl 1 1/6 to 1¢ in head; ventral 2. 
Color in alcohol: dull brownish generally, scales on 
back all finely dotted with dusky. Sides of head and iris 
with silvery reflections. Minute dusky dots on muzzle and 
heed above. From shoulder broad silvery-white band, about 
wide as pupil, to caudal base medially. Pectoral with dusky 
blotch little less than eve on outer half. Fins otherwise 
pale. Length 105 to 107 mm. Two from Sydney. 
The vent in our exemples falis a little further beck 
then Ogilby shows, °°though at least before tips of depres- 
sed ventrals. 
pG.Mem, Queensland Mus., 191%, p. 40, fig. a. = 
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