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553. Petroscirtes pttnctatus, Cuv. & Yal. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 231. 



D. 12/22. A. 23. 



Height of body one-sixth of total length, length of head 

 slightly more. Snout short ; the upper canine tooth half the 

 size of the lower. The dorsal fin extends to the root of the 

 caudal. Greyish, with three longitudinal series of black spots ; 

 the upper along the base of the dorsal fin ; the lower along the 

 middle of the body. 



Australia (Yal.) 



554. Petroscirtes eloxgatus, Peters. 



Gunth., Cat. Pishes III., p. 233.— Joum. Mus. Godef., Heft 



XIII., p. 196. 



D. 32. A. 24. Y. 2. 



The height of the body is six times and a-half in the length 

 (without caudal) ; the length of the head five times and one-third. 

 Snout with a very convex profile, scarcely as long as the diameter 

 of the eye. The width of the interorbital space is one-third of 

 the diameter of the eye. Canine teeth of lower jaw twice the 

 size of those of the upper. The dorsal fin is not elevated, 

 it is emarginate, and begins rather before the vertical from the 

 root of the pectoral. Caudal fin emarginate. Greenish : a white- 

 edged, ocellated spot on the operculum ; dorsal and anal fins 

 brown, with white stripes, longitudinal on the former, and oblique 

 on the latter. Male with an ocellated spot between the twenty- 

 third and twenty-fifth dorsal rays. 



North Australia (Gunther). 



555. Petroscirtes solorensis, Bleek. 

 KnerVoy. Novara, Ichth., p. 196.— Gunth. Cat. Pishes III., p. 235. 



D. 30. A. 20. 





