136 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



lateral line straight, a second on the blind side along the upper 

 profile of the neck, commencing from the snout ; each dorsal and 

 anal ray with a pore at the base. Gill-openings narrow, the 

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

 rudimentary. 



Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 



795. Pardaciiirus pavoninus, Lacep. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 479.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth. Pieuron., tab. 



10, fig. 1. 



D. 67. A. 50-52. L. lat. 90. 



Dorsal and anal rays branched. Only the scales on the head 

 and a few on the body minutely ciliated. The height of the body 

 is two-fifths or one third of the total length (without caudal). 

 Yellowish-brown ; the head and body with numerous larger and 

 smaller rounded white spots, edged and minutely dotted with dark 

 brown, and with a round black dot in the centre ; vertical fins 

 with numerous whitish ocelli. 



East Indian Archipelago, and Australia, Cape Grenville 

 (Chevert Exp.). 



Genus Syxaptura, Cant. 



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

 of the mouth narrow, twisted to the left side ; teeth minute, on 

 the blind side only ; no vomerine or palatine teeth. Vertical fins 

 confluent. Scales small, ctenoid. Lateral line straight. 



Indian and Australian Seas. 



796. Synaptura quagga, Kaup. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes IV., p. 485. 



D. 68. A. 58-60. C. 18. P. 9. L. lat. 90. 



Tho upper eye slightly in advance of the lower. The height 

 of the body is rather less than one-third of the total length, the 



