Text Appearing Before Image: Vic-toria (Lat. 38° 25 00 S., Long. 145°15 57 E.). This species has not pre-viously been recorded from Victoria.It was trawled on a sandy bottom withpatches of eel-grass from Fisheriesand Wildlife survey vessel Melita.The specimen was preserved in asolution of ethanol : sea-water (7 : 3vol.). It is held by the NationalMuseum of Victoria (Nat. Mus. Vict.Fish Catalogue Number A505). Meristic and morphometric observations Measurement criteria, excepting scalecounts, are those of Eschmeyer and Poss(1975). All dimensions are reported inmillimetres. Dorsal fin XIII, 7i (last split to base,almost 8); Anal fin III, 51 (last split tobase, almost 6); Pectoral fin 25; Ventralfin I, 5; Caudal fin 10 branched, 12 prin-cipal; Gill rakers 4 + 9= 13, 4 + 8 =12; Nasal spines 2,3; Supraorbitalspines 12, 10; Scales in lateral line 44;Scales above lateral line 4; Scales belowlateral line 12; Standard length 69.0; * Lecturer Zoology,Department of Applied Biology,Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Text Appearing After Image: 62 Vict. Nat. Vol. 93 Fig. 2:Head ofM. sea tricepsshowing the ribbedmaxilla charac-teristic of thegenus.
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