24 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Count Castelnau says (he. cit.J that this species resembles much 

 the preceding 1 species fC. multifenestratusj in having numerous 

 transparent spots on the dorsal and anal fins, in a sort of trellis 

 work arrangement ; but the height of the body is contained four 

 times and two-thirds in the present species in the length of the 

 body, and the operculum is strongly striated. The general colour 

 is a beautiful orange red. 



Melbourne. Length eight inches. 



588. Cristicets Forsteri, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 132. 

 D. 3/29/4. A. 26. V. 1/3. 



Head elevated and gibbous. Height of body four times and 

 a-half in the total length, length of head four times and one-third; 

 diameter of eye four times and one-fourth in the length of the 

 head. A single bifid filament over the eye. Lips thick and 

 prominent. The first dorsal fin commences in f r out of the vertical 

 from the end of the operculum and is elevated, the second dorsal 

 is separated from it by only a small space ; the caudal is rounded 

 and formed of nine rays ; the rays of the anal increase a little in 

 length towards the posterior part, which is rounded ; the ventrals 

 have the external ray short, the others long and connected towards 

 the base. General colour green, with the sides of the head and 

 the anterior part of the lower side of the body ochreous-yellow ; 

 lips purple ; ' lower portions of prsoopcrculum carmine ; dorsal, 

 caudal, and anal fins green, with the spines and rays purple ; 

 ventrals yellow ; pectorals purple- There are two rounded white 

 spots between the bases of the ventral and pectoral fins and on 

 the second dorsal there are fenestrated rounded spots between 

 the fourth and fifth rays, the ninth, tenth, and eleventh, the 

 twentieth, and twenty-first, the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh, 

 and the thirty-second and thirty-third ; on the anal there are 

 similar spots between tho seventeenth and eighteenth, and the 

 twentieth and twenty -first, and one covering nearly all the twenty- 



