8 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISTIES, 



Height of body one-sixth, and length of head one fifth of the 

 total length ; no orbital tentacles ; diameter of eye one-fourth of 

 the length of the head, and twice the length of the snout, and 

 width of the interorbital space. The teeth in both jaws number 

 twenty-eight or thirty ; canines strong in both jaws and sometimes 

 larger on one side than on the other. The vaulted forehead 

 descends perpendicularly to the mouth. The dorsal fin begins 

 over the operculum and extends to the tail, which is similarly 

 continuous with the anal fin ; the anterior rays of the dorsal fin 

 are prolonged into short filaments and are equal to the height of 

 the body ; ventrals long. Colour brownish, the belly lighter, 

 the sides clouded ; ventral fins violet, the other fins blackish. 

 Length fifteen lines. 



Sydney (Kner). 



556. Petroscirtes fasciolatus, n. sp. 



D. 33. A. 26. 



Height of body about equal to the length of the head and one- 

 eighth of the total length. Head and snout very convex and 

 obtuse ; the diameter of the eye about the length of the snout 

 aud twice the width of the interorbital space ; cheeks swollen, 

 ventral fins with two rays, the inner one longest ; the last few 

 rays of the dorsal and anal fins somewhat enlarged at their apex. 

 Colour reddish-yellow, with numerous reddish-brown spots on the 

 side of the head, and six to eight very fine, oblique, pearly or 

 silvery streaks on the side of the body as far as two-thirds of its 

 length, and about three longitudinal streaks of the same kind on 

 the posterior third. The fins are a little paler than the body 

 and transparent ; the dorsal and anal with a narrow black margin 

 with the extreme tips white ; a cloudy blotch near the summit of 

 the eighth to tenth dorsal rays, counting from the tail. 



Port Jackson (Macl. Mas.) Length two to three inches. 



