104 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



caudal emarginate ; the scales behind the eye strongly granulate ; 

 thirteen rays to the pectorals. Length thirteen inches and a-half . 

 Cape York." 



747. Pseudoscarus viridescens, Casteln. 



Researches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 42. 



" This also enters division having two series of large scales on 

 the cheeks ; teeth white, with their edge well marked, and the 

 separation of each tooth marked by a faint line on all its length. 

 The general form of the body is short and inflated ; the height 

 of the body is twice and two-thirds in the total length without 

 the caudal ; or a little less than three times in the same with this 

 fin ; the head is contained over three times and one-third in the 

 length (without caudal) ; the diameter of the eye is not quite 

 twice and a-half in the snout ; the pectorals have thirteen rays ; 

 the lateral line is marked by a succession of complicated arbuscules 

 on its first half, and of more simple but irregular ones on its 

 posterior part ; caudal subtruncate. The general colour (in 

 spirits) is green, becoming rather lilac on the cheeks and the 

 lower part of the head ; the dorsal, caudal, and anal appear to 

 have been red ; the other fins yellow. Length of specimen, eight 

 inches. From Cape York." 



Genus Heteroscarus, Casteln. 



Upper jaw longer than the lower ; teeth soldered together, 

 forming a sharp cutting ridge on both sides, with a median suture 

 in the upper and none in the lower jaw. Scales large ; fourteen 

 or fifteen stiff dorsal spines ; head naked, porous, cheeks dotted 

 with imbedded and impressed non-imbricate scales ; large scales 

 on the operculum ; lateral line continuous. 



East and South Coasts of Australia. 



748. Heteroscarus filamentosus, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. IL, p. 74. 



