128 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



the caudal fin, one on the upper, the other on the lower edge, 

 behind the middle. Length four and a-half inches. 



Port Jackson. 



Genus Ammotretis, Gunth. 



Eyes on the right side, on the same level, or the lower rather 

 in advance. Mouth unsymmetrical, narrower on the right side 

 than on the left, the length of the left maxillary being less than 

 one-third of the head ; teeth on the blind side only, where they 

 are villiform, forming bands ; no vomerine or palatine teeth. 

 Dorsal and anal rays branched and scaly; the dorsal fin commences 

 on the snout and is not continued on to the caudal. Two ventrals, 

 the right in the same line, and continuous with, the anal. Scales 

 small, ctenoid ; lateral line straight. Gill-openings narrow, the 

 gill-membranes broadly united below the throat ; gill-rakers 

 short, conical. 



Australia. 



784. Ammotretis rostratus, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 458. 



B. 7. D. 80. A. 53. P. 12. V. dext. 6, sin. 4. L. lat. 90. 



The upper part of the snout is produced into a flap overhanging 

 the lower jaw. Colour uniform brownish-olive. 



Port Jackson. Tasmania. 



Genus Ehomdosolea, Gunth. 



Eyes on the right side, the lower in advance of the upper. 

 Mouth unsymmetrical, narrower on the right side than on the 

 loft, the length of the left maxillary being less than one-third of 

 that of the head ; teeth on the blind side only, where they are 

 villiform, forming bands ; no vomerine or palatine teeth. Most 

 of the dorsal and anal rays branched ; the dorsal fin commences 

 on the foremost part of the snout. One ventral fin, continuous 



