BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.8. 115 



The width of the head behind the eyes is about equal to its 

 length, and considerably less than the height of the body below 

 the first dorsal fin ; the body tapers towards the tail which is 

 much compressed before the fin and not higher than the diameter 

 of the eye. Snout very obtuse and rounded, projecting beyond 

 the mouth ; the maxillary reaches to the vertical behind the 

 posterior margin of the orbit ; the barbel is about equal in length 

 to nearly two diameters of the eye. Ventral fins much shorter 

 than the pectorals, the two first rays white and produced into 

 filaments ; dorsal and anal fins pointed behind, caudal long and 

 rounded. Scales very small. Colour uniform brownish, with the 

 margins of all the fins white. 



Port Jackson. Length twelve to twenty inches. 



768. Lotella grandis, Ramsay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. V., p. 464. 

 Wollongong. 



Genus Pseudopiiycis, Gunth. 



Body of moderate length, covered with small scales. A separate 

 caudal fin ; two dorsal fins and one anal ; ventral fins with an 

 exceedingly narrow styliform base, but composed of several rays. 

 Teeth in the jaws in a band, of equal size ; no vomerine or 

 palatine teeth. Chin with a barbel. Branchiostegals seven. 



Australia and New Zealand. 



769. Pseudopiiycis barbatus, Gunth. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1863, p. 116. — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, Victoria, I., p. 162. 



"Hock Cod" of the Melbourne Market. 



B. 7. D. 9. 50. A. 55. V. 5. L. lat. 140. 



Oblong, becoming compressed a little and tapering towards the 

 tail ; the head is broad and flat above ; the snout rounded but 



