310 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



D. 3/27. A. 24. L. lat. 41. 



Tail with six (? four) strong spines on each side, arranged in a 

 double series. Twenty-four scales in a transverse series, running 

 from the origin of the dorsal fin to the vent. Some small osseous 

 scales behind the gill-opening. Dorsal and anal fins rather low, 

 with rounded profile ; caudal sub-truncate. Blackish-brown ; 

 head and body with numerous oblique and somewhat undulated 

 yellowish or reddish stripes ; two, broader than the others, 

 proceed from the lips, and are confluent posteriorly. The first 

 dorsal fin black, the others orange coloured. The spines on each 

 side of the tail in a black patch. 



Cape York (Castelnau). 



991. Balistes Garnoti, Casteln. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Victoria, Vol. II., p. 107. 



D. 3/22. A. 19. 



Form short and high, the height of the body being half the 

 total length ; the length of the head is twice and eight-tenths in 

 the same, and the diameter of the eye is three times in the length 

 of the head. The profile of the head is straight, very little 

 concave, the first dorsal spine is strong and straight, rough with 

 small spines ; the second dorsal fin is high and triangular ; anal 

 similar. Colour light yellowish-brown, darker on the back, with 

 faint traces of annulated spots ; the second dorsal fin is also 

 faintly spotted. There are one or two irregular blotches at the 

 base of the anal fin. On each side of the body there is a faint 

 brown line, which is divided about the middle into two, one run- 

 ning to the posterior edge of the dorsal fin, the other to the anal. 

 Fins yellow. 



Knob Island (Torres Straits). 



Genus Moxacantiius, Cuv. 

 Body compressed, covered with very small or minute rough 

 scales ; adult males of some of the species witli a peculiar 



