64 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



longer than the middle ones ; caudal fin slightly emarginate, -with 

 the lobes rounded. Blackish-brown, each scale with a silvery 

 dot ; a curved silvery line round the lower part of the orbit. A 

 black spot on the base of the last three dorsal rays and another 

 superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 



Port Darwin. 



I have several specimens about four inches long. In all of 

 them there are two silvery lines in front of the eye, and a distinct 

 black spot on the upper margin of the operculum. It may prove 

 to be another species. 



668. Pomacentrus Bankanensis, Bleek. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 26. 



D. 13/14. A. 2/14-15. L. lat. 26-28. L. trans. 3/9. 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds in the 

 total length ; pneorbital denticulated. The dorsal spines increase 

 in length backwards ; caudal fin sub truncated. Brownish : caudal 

 fin yellow, each scale with a bluish dot ; two bluish lines along 

 the forehead, convergent on the snout, and extending on to the 

 back ; two similar lines through the iris to the maxillary ; a dark 

 blue spot superiorly on the operculum ; a black ocellus edged 

 with white on the base of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh dorsal 

 rays. 



Port Darwin. 



669. Pomacentrus obscurus, All. & Macl. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 343, pi. 15, fig. 2. 

 Torres Straits. 



670. Pomacentrus bilineatus, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 89. 



D. 13/14. A. 2/14. L. lat. 30. L. transv. 3/9. 



