340 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



brownish, with more or less numerous round whitish spots. 

 Sides silvery ; abdomen white. A simple, non-perforate nasal 

 cavity with a fringed edge. 



Port Darwin. 



1049. Tetrodon fasciatus, Macl. 



Proc Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 365, pi. 10, tig. 5. 

 Port Darwin. 



1050. Tetrodon Bibroxi, Casteln. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 247. 



Moreton Bay. 



1051. Tetrodon Staigeri, Casteln. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 248. 



Moreton Bay. 



1052. Tetrodon pleurostictus, Gunth. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 674, pi. 69, fig. A. 



The lower side of the tail with a distinct ridge-like fold. The 

 two nasal openings on each side are in a single papilla. The 

 anterior part of the abdomen and sometimes the middle of the 

 back of the trunk with minute spines; the remainder of the 

 fish being entirely smooth. Snout short, its length being less 

 than the width of the inter- orbital space. The length of tho 

 head ecpials its distance from the dorsal fin. Caudal fin truncate. 

 Upper parts brown ; sides greyish, gradually passing into the 

 white of the lower parts. A series of three black round spots 

 on each side of the body — the first corresponding to the upper 

 posterior corner of the pectoral fin, the second below the end of 

 the dorsal, and the third on the upper half of the tail near the 

 base of the caudal fin. 



Port Bowen, Port Mackay. Length four inches. 



