BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 31 



height of the body behind the operculum. Pectoral fins longer 

 than the head, reaching to the sixth anal spine. Colour uniform 

 brownish red. 



West Australia. 



600. Patjectts maculatus, Gunth. 



Cat. Fishes III., 292.— Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. 



II., p. 231. 



D. 31. A. 12. P. 8. 



The pectoral fin shorter than the head. Olive, black-spotted. 



Dr. G-unther's description of this Fish cannot be accurate, or 

 its resemblance to fronto must be very slight. It will probably 

 be found that for D. 3 1 . we should read D. 41 . Count Castelnau's 

 description in the Third Yolume of our transactions will assist in 

 the identification of the species, which is from South Australia. 



601. Patjecus "Waterhousei, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 24-1. 



The pectoral fin rather longer than the head, only extending 

 to the anus ; dorsal with thirty spines, the first sensibly longer 

 than the others, and with its membrane deeply emarginated ; 

 caudal with the fifth, sixth and seventh rays considerably 

 prolonged ; anal with ten rays, the posterior ones elongated and 

 pointed ; mouth surrounded by several series of bifid papilla?. 

 Brown, marbled with white. 



South Australia. 



602. Patjecus suboceleatus, Gunth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1871, p. 665, pi. 64. 



D. 39. A. 15. C. 10. P. 8. 



The first dorsal spine very short, the second is the longest, as 

 long as the head. The interraclial membrane of the anal fin is 



