38 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



nil. Atiierixa pixguis, Lacep. 



Grunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 399. 



" HardyJiead" of Sydney Fishermen. 



D. 6. 1/10. A. 1/14-15. L. lat. 42-45. L.transv. 7. Vert. 20/23. 



The origin of the spinous dorsal is at some distance behind the 

 vertical from the vent, and its distance from the operculum is 

 equal to one and a-third of the length of the head. The height 

 of the body is five times and two-thirds in the total length, the 

 length of the head four times and two-thirds. The diameter of 

 the eye is two-fifths of the length of the head, equal to the width 

 of the interorbital space, and much longer than the snout. Snout 

 short, obtuse, with the cleft of the mouth very oblique, and the 

 upper jaw overlapping the lower ; the maxillary extends beyond 

 the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye. Teeth distinct 

 in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. The silvery 

 streak occupies the third series of scales and the adjoining quarter 

 of the fourth. The membrane in which the dorsal scales are 

 rooted, is minutely dotted with white ; a blackish blotch on the 

 posterior extremity of the pectoral ; iris with a blackish spot 

 superiorly. 



Port Jackson. South Australia. 



612. Atiierina lacuxosa, Bleek. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 400.— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 



Vol. I., p. 340. 



D. G. 1/9. A. 1/13-15. L. lat. 41. 



The spinous dorsal is nearar to the anal fin than to the ventrals. 

 The height of the body is two-thirteenths in the total length, the 

 length of the head two-ninths. Snout much shorter than the eye, 

 the maxillary extending to below the pupil ; teeth in the jaws, 

 less distinct than on the vomer and palatine bones. Margin of 

 the scales denticulated. No black spot on the pectoral fin. 



Capo York (Chcvert Exp.) 



