BY "W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 277 



that of the trunk. Brown, with large whitish or yellowish 

 spots, each of which contains smaller brown spots. Head and 

 neck brown variegated with whitish. Gill-opening in a small 

 brown spot ; tail with a narrow white edge. Sometimes almost 

 entirely brown, with small whitish spots more or less arranged 

 in rings. 



Australian Seas. (Sir John Eichardson.) 



930. Murjena tesselata, Richards. 



Gunth., Cat. Pishes VIII., p. 106.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth. Mur., 



pi. 27-28, fig. 13. 



Teeth uni-serial, young specimens with additional teeth, forming 

 an inner maxillary series. Canines moderately developed ; the 

 mouth can be shut completely. Anterior nasal tubes much 

 shorter than the vertical diameter of the eye. Gill-opening 

 wider than the eye. Snout compressed, of moderate length ; ■ 

 eye rather small, rather less than half the length of the snout, 

 situated above the middle of the cleft of the mouth. Cleft of 

 the mouth wide, its width being contained twice and one-third 

 in the length of the head. Tail nearly as long as the body ; 

 the length of the head is one-third of that of the trunk. Head, body, 

 and fins with large polygonal or rounded black spots separated 

 by narrow white lines, or by distinct interspaces of the ground 

 colour, all or most of the spots being wider than the interspaces 

 (as in var. isingteena). 



Endeavour River. 



931. MuRjENA ttndulata, Eacep. 



Gunth., Cat. Eishes VIIE, p. 110. 



M. cancellata, Richards., Voy. Ereb. and Terr., p. 87, pi. 46, f. 1-5. 



Teeth uni-serial, sometimes two additional teeth forming an 

 inner maxillary series ; mandibulary teeth from twenty-six to 

 thirty in number on each side (in adults); canines strong, normally 



