294 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



the dorsal is placed entirely on the tail, at a great distance behind 

 the vent. 



Manchuria. Australia. 



961. Urocampus cabintrostris, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 200. 



" Snout rather turned upwards, very short, being contained 

 once and a half in the diameter of the eye, and nearly three 

 times in the length of the head ; it is not abruptly separated from 

 the forehead, and goes slanting to its extremity ; the supraorbital 

 ridges are very strong, and sometimes converge in front to form 

 the medium ridge of the snout ; in other specimens there is 

 between them a rounded, sharp, ridge ; there is a short spine at 

 the anterior angle of the eye ; the eyes are very prominent ; 

 occiput and nuchal shields with ridges ; operculum covered with 

 strong radiated strise, and almost carinated ; the pectorals are not 

 much longer than the orbit, and not quite one-half of one of the 

 body shields ; the snout is contained about seven times in the 

 trunk ; the distance from the anus to the beginning of the dorsal 

 is about equal to one-half its distance to the end of the snout ; 

 the body has three ridges, the upper one much more marked than 

 the others ; the central one ending at the base of the tail ; each 

 shield has two small longitudinal ridges, and is perpendicularly 

 striated ; the osseous rings number nine on the body, seven more 

 on the tail before the dorsal, which begius on the seventeenth 

 and extends over the three following ; behind these are forty- 

 five or forty-six others ; the caudal is very minute ; no anal ; the 

 tail is tapering and very thin, its ridges much less marked than 

 those of the body. The general colour is a light green, with 

 dark spots corresponding to the centre of the body rings ; eye of 

 a golden hue ; an indistinct black stripe on the side of the mouth." 

 (Castelnau). 



Port Phillip. Length three to three and a half inches, (taken 

 with shrimps). 



