270 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



body is scarlet, with twenty broad black bands, becoming 

 narrower on tlie belly. 



Cape York. Length nineteen inches. 



928. OrniciiTnYs episcopus, Casteln. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 244. 

 Moreton Bay. 



Sub-Family II. MUE/ENIDiE ENGYSCHIST^E. 

 The branchial openings in the pharynx are narrow slits. 



Genus Mur.exa, Cuv. 



Scaleless. Teeth well developed. Gill-openings narrow. 

 Pectoral fins none ; dorsal and anal well developed. Two 

 nostrils on each side of the upper surface of the snout ; the 

 posterior a narrow round foramen, with or without tube, the 

 anterior in a tube. 



Temperate and Tropical Seas. 



929. MURiENA iielexa. L. 



Eichards. Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 80, pi. 49, f. 1-6. — Gunth. 

 Cat. Pishes VIII., p. 96. 



Posterior nostrils tubular ; anterior nasal tubes of moderate 

 length, being about equal to the vertical diameter of the eye. 

 Teeth imi-serial. Intermaxillary and mandibular canine teeth 

 but little larger than the lateral teeth ; anterior vomerine teeth 

 much the largest, seventeen to eighteen teeth on each side of 

 the lower jaw. Gill-opening a small horizontal slit. Snout 

 rather pointed ; eye small, two-fifths of the length of the snout, 

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

 the mouth wide, its length being about two-thirds of the distanco 

 between the angle of the mouth and the gill-opening. Tail a 

 little longer than tho body ; the length of tho head two-fifths of 



