282 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Teeth uni-serial in old examples, except the vomerine which 

 are sometimes bi-serial ; in young examples generally all bi- 

 serial. Mandible with about twenty teeth on each side, the four 

 anterior much longer than the others and like the canines rather 

 elongate. Anterior nasal tubes half as long as the eye. Gill- 

 opening nearly as icicle as the eye. Snout narrow, produced, 

 pointed. Eye of moderate size, half the length of the snout, 

 situated somewhat nearer to the angle of the mouth than to the 

 end of the snout. Cleft of the mouth wide, two-fifths of the 

 length of the head. Tail longer than the body. The length of 

 the head is contained twice and one or two-thirds in that of the 

 trunk. Dorsal fin not elevated. Brownish-black ; fins without 

 light edge. Colour in fresh specimens, green. 



Port Jackson. Australian coasts. 



939. MuR^ENA nebulosa, Bl. 



Gunth., Cat. Pishes, VIIL, p. 130. 



21. variegata, Richards. Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 94, pi. 47, 



f. 11-16. 



Teeth obtuse, molar-like. Yellowish, with fine veriniculated 

 black lines, and two series of large black spots, the upper 

 running along the side of the back, the lower along the lower 

 half the body ; each spot includes one or more white spots ; 

 more or less regular black bands cross the abdomen connecting 

 the spots of the lower series. The black spots are sometimes 

 reduced to starlike figures. 



Torres Straits. (Chevert Exp.) 



940. Mur;ena pseudothyrsoidea, Bleek. 



Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 104, pi. 46, fig. 2.— Gunth., Cat. Fishes, 



VIIL, p. 112. 



Teeth uni-serial ; mandible with about eighteen teeth on each 

 side ; canines moderately developed ; the mouth cannot be shut 



