30 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



than the anterior. Ventrals jugular, close together, reduced to 

 a single bifid ray. The gill-membrane is attached to the isthmus 

 before the ventrals. Pseudobranchiae well developed. Intestinal 

 tract short, simple, without pyloric appendages. Air-bladder 

 none. 



598. NOTOGRAPTUS GUTTATUS, Guntll. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1867, Vol. XX., p. 64. 



D. 69. C. 11. A. 43. 



The height of the body is one-twelfth of the length vithout 

 caudal, length of the head two-fifteenths. Hye small; barbel 

 shorter than the ventrals, which are about twice as long as the 

 eye. Reddish or brown, dorsal fin, upper and lateral parts with 

 numerous blue dots, those on the head largest. Young with the 

 spots on the body, indistinct and of a brown colour. 



Cape York. Port Darwin (Macl. Mus.) 



Genus Pat.ecus, Pichardson. 



Body oblong, anteriorly elevated, very compressed, and tapering 

 to the tail. Forehead projecting beyond the snout ; minute teeth 

 in the jaws and on the vomer, none on the palatine bones. 

 Mouth small, no scales. Dorsal fin long, some of the anterior 

 spines strong, continuous with the caudal ; ventrals none. Gill- 

 openings wide ; no pseudobranchiae ; branchiostegals sis. No 

 cleft behind the fourth gill. 



Australia. 



599. Pat/ecus pronto, Pichards. 



Ichth. Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 20, pi. 13.— Gunth., Cat. III., 



p. 292. 



B. 6. D. 24/16. A. 11/5. P. 8. 



Head very high and compressed, front of the head more than 

 perpendicular. Dorsal fin beginning before the eyes, the firs t 

 spine short and stout, the next few stout and long, equalling the 



