BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 21 



.581. Cristiceps Magleayi, Casteln. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. III., p. 385. 

 Port Jackson. 



582. Cristiceps Howittii, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 48. 



The height of the body is contained about five times in the 

 total length, the length of the head four times and one-third ; the 

 diameter of the eye four times and two-thirds in the length of 

 the head. No scales. The lower jaw longer than the upper. 

 The first dorsal fin is placed over the centre of the orbit, its first ray 

 much prolonged; the second dorsal is high, and highest posteriorly, 

 of thirty-five rays ; caudal very long and lanceolate ; the anal is 

 like the second dorsal, and of twenty-seven rays ; the vontrals 

 have two rays one of them bifid. Colour in preserved specimens 

 reddish-brown ; the front part of the head is yellow, and there 

 is a broad, black band running oblicpiely downwards below the 

 orbit. Body marbled and banded with brown, with some ocellated 

 light spots ; dorsal and anal fins yellow, with five broad, obscure, 

 transverse bands ; the caudal is yellow at its base and brown on 

 its terminal half, the pectorals are yellow with their base brown. 



Western Port. Length four and a-half inches. 



583. Cbisticeps kodustus, Gunth. 



Gunth., Ann. and Mag., Nat. Hist. 1867, Vol. XX., p. 62. 



D. 3/32/7. A. 2/25. 



The anterior dorsal fin commences over the hind margin of the 

 prce operculum, and is not higher than the posterior. A fringed 

 tentacle above the orbit, a small one at the nostril. Back with 

 seven dark cross-bands, the first below the anterior dorsal, sub- 

 ocellated. 



Melbourne. Pive inches long, (Gunther.) 



