298 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Body very depressed. Snout very long, nearly twice as long 

 as the remaining part of the head. Operculum with a distinct 

 longitudinal ridge. Vent below the posterior third of the dorsal 

 fin. Tail more than twice as long as the trunk ; egg-pouch 

 extending over fourteen rings. Upper parts uniform brownish 

 (in spirits) ; abdomen with a brown cross-bar on each suture 

 between the rings. 



Port Jackson. Port Phillip. 



Count Castelnau makes mention of a species which he names 

 S. hoops, in his list of Melbourne Fishes (Proc. Zool. Soc, Vict., 

 Vol. I.) but he gave no description of it, and was uncertain if it 

 really differed specifically from S. nigra. 



967. Stigmatophora olivacea, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. II., p. 77. 



D. about 4-3. Osseous rings 19 -4- 84. 



Snout rather more than twice the length of the remaining part 

 of the head ; the length of the head is a little less than six times 

 in the total length; the opening of the mouth is upwards ; a 

 longitudinal ridge runs all along the upper surface of the snout ; 

 operculum without any ridge ; vent below the middle of the 

 dorsal fin ; egg-pouch extending over thirteen rings. The pectoral 

 fins rather large, of eighteen rays. Colour light olive, becoming 

 grey below ; egg-pouch orange ; all the rings present an obscure 

 tinge at their junction, and these very inconspicuous transverse 

 bands extend on to the snout. 



South Australia. Length nine inches. 



968. Stigmatophora ujsticolor, Casteln. 



Eesearches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 49. 



Snout once and a half as long as the remaining portion of the 

 head ; operculum with a strong, distinct, longitudinal, rather 

 oblique ridge ; head ended by a b road trifid spine in the centre, 



