252 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



and eight longitudinal series of scales "between the origin of the 

 dorsal, and the lateral line. Pectoral fin with a broadish oblique 

 whitish band across its anterior half, and with a whitish margin. 

 Ventrals white, the middle rays greyish. 



Australia (Grunther). Length sixteen inches. 



879. Exoco3tus nigripinnis, Cuv. & Val. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes VI., p. 298.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth. Scombr., 



tab 5, fig. 1. 



D. 10-11. A. 10-12. L. lat. 48-50. 



The height of the body is one-sixth or a little less of the length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head two-ninths, The depth 

 of the head equals the distance between the extremity of the 

 snout and the hind margin of the prreoperculum. Snout obtuse 

 and very short, scarcely more than half the length of the diameter 

 of the eye, which is two-fifths of the length of the head, and is 

 less than the width of the interorbital space, which is concave. 

 The pectoral fin extends to the end of the dorsal, or root of the 

 caudal. Ventral fin midway between the eye and the root of the 

 caudal, extending nearly to the end of the tail. The dorsal 

 commences above the origin of the anal, its anterior rays being 

 more than half as long as the head. There are twenty-nine scales 

 between the occiput and the origin of the dorsal fin, and six 

 longitudinal series of scales between the origin of the dorsal and 

 the lateral line. Pectoral and ventral fins black. 



West. Australia. AVarrior Reef (Chevert Exp.) 



880. Exoccrtus atrodorsalis, Gunth. 



Gunth., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, Vol. XX., p. 67. 



D. 8-9. A. 10. L. lat. 35. 



The pectoral fin extends to the end of the dorsal. The ventral 

 fin is scarcely nearer to the root of the caudal than to the end of 

 the snout, extending to the origin of the anal. Dorsal fin 



