120 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



774. Fierasfer Homei, Eichards. 



Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 74, pi. 44, figs. 7-18. — Gunth., Cat. 



Fishes IV., p. 382. 



The length of the head is seven times and a-half or eight times 

 in the total length ; its width one half its length. Gill-openings 

 of moderate width, the united gill-membranes leaving half of the 

 isthmus uncovered. Vent a little in advance of the vertical from 

 the root of the pectoral fin. Teeth small, cardiform ; two larger 

 ones anteriorly in the upper jaw and on the vomer ; an outer 

 series of stronger teeth along the side of the lower jaw. Dorsal 

 fin very low, but distinct. Yellowish with some scattered darker 

 dots on the back. 



Torres Straits (Chevert Exp.) 



Genus Coxgrogadus, Gunth. 



Body elongate, compressed, eel-like, covered with very small 

 scales ; vertical fins united, long. Ventrals none. Cleft of the 

 mouth moderate, with the lower jaw prominent. Jaws with a 

 single series of small teeth, closely set ; palate smooth. Branchi- 

 ostegals six ; gill-openings of moderate width, gill-membranes 

 united below the throat, not attached to the isthmus ; gills four, 

 a slit behind the fourth ; pseudobranchire well developed. Vent 

 remote from the head. Air-bladder and pyloric appendages none. 



Indian Archipelago and North Australia. 



775. Coxgrogadus subducexs, Eichards. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 388. 



Machecrium subducem, Eichards., Voy. Erebus and Terror, pi. 44, 



figs. 1-6. 



B. 6. D. 71. C. 10. A. 00-65. 



The height of the body is three-fifths of the length of the head, 

 which is contained six times and a-half to seven times in the total 

 length. The dorsal fin commences above the end of the pectoral. 



