18 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Head generally with, tentacles. Gill-opening wide ; six branchi- 

 ostegals. Pyloric appendages none. 



Yiviparons Fishes ; European, Indian and Australian Coasts 

 and Eivers. 



576. Cristiceps aktixectes, Gunth. 



Cristicejps argentatus, var. antinectes, Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 



272, and note p. 273. 



B. 6. D. 3/30/4. A. 2/23. V. 1/2. 



The height of the "body is contained six times in the total 

 length, the length of the head five times and a-third. The snout 

 is of moderate extent, subconical, with the lower jaw somewhat 

 prominent. Palatine teeth none. The width of the interorbital 

 space is less than the diameter of the eye ; a small, simple tentacle 

 above the orbit. Scales exceedingly small. A short detached 

 dorsal fin on the nape of the neck, the spines of which it is formed 

 are slender and rather longer than those of the second dorsal ; 

 the latter is not emarginate and is united with the base of the 

 caudal. Brown or yellowish, more or less spotted and marbled 

 with darker ; generally a series of whitish or yellowish spots 

 along the sides. 



"West Australia. 



•377. Cristiceps xasutus, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 273. 



D. 3/28/4. A. 2/21. Y. 1/3. P. 13. C. 9. 



The height of the body is five times and a-half in the total 

 length, the length of the head four times and a-half. The snout 

 is subconical, somewhat longer than the eye, with the jaws equal. 

 The width of the interorbital space is much less than the vertical 

 diameter of the eye. A long fringed tentacle at the nostril, that 

 above the orbit rather shorter. Scales minute. The detached 

 dorsal fin is situated above the operculum, the last dorsal ray is 



