138 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



800. Plagusia acuminata, Castelu. 



Researches ou the Fishes of Australia, p. 44. 



D. 90. A. 90. C. 10. V. 4. 



The greatest height of the body is contained four times and 

 one-third in the total length, the length of the head five and a-half 

 times ; the highest part is about the first third of its length, from 

 thence it tapers to the tail, which is very acute ; only one lateral 

 line on the left side ; the lip tentacles of the coloured side are 

 short but thick ; the height of the head at the opercle is equal to 

 its length, rostral hook long, extending behind the lower eye ; 

 scales strongly ciliated. Colour of an uniform light creamy pink, 

 the fin rays marbled with brown. 



West Australia. 



801. Plagusia unicolor, n. sp. 



" The Lemon Sole" of the Fishermen." 



D. 120. A. 90. V. 4. L. lat. 100 on the body. 



Height of body about three and a-half times in the total length ; 

 the body tapering to a pointed tail. Postral hook long ; eyes 

 small, more than their diameter apart, the upper sensibly in 

 advance of the lower, a fleshy tubercle in front of the lower eye 

 on the coloured side ; a similar tubercle over the mouth on the 

 blind side, marking the position of one of the nostrils. Mouth 

 small, much twisted, on the coloured side with the lips covered 

 with tentacles. Scales small, ctenoid, two lateral lines on the left 

 side running almost parallel and extending from the front of the 

 head to the tail ; the upper keeping near the dorsal fin, the other 

 near the middle of the body. The vertical fins are low, the rays 

 simple. Colour light yellowish-brown, (the fins a little redder), 

 indistinctly mottled with ashy-grey. 



Port Jackson. Length six inches. 



