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green, -with some minute darker specks and dots of a pale 

 colour scattered over the body, and most crowded on the face 

 and flanks. Along tlie pelvic bone and near the abdomen the 

 dots run into streaks. 



"West Australia, Victoria, Port Jackson. 



1026. Monacanthus ocuLATUS, Gunth. 

 Gunth., Cat. Fishes, VIII., p. 235. 



D. 24. A. 22. 



Skin densely covered with minute bristles, producing a velvety 

 appearance. Outline of the body subcircular, its depth being 

 contained once and one-third in the length without the caudal fin. 

 No pelvic protuberance. Snout very obtuse, not projecting. 

 The dorsal spine is rather stout but short, placed behind the eye 

 and about as long as the orbit ; it has no barbs. Dorsal and 

 anal fins of moderate height. Olive-coloured (in spirits) with 

 about nine rather irregular longitudinal rows of purplish ocelli 

 edged with white, and about as large as the pupil of the eye. 



South Australia, Port Jackson. Length one and a half inch. 



1027. Moxacanthus Baueri, Richards. 

 Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 68. 



D. 26-27. A. 21. C. 9. P. 6-7. 



Form inflated as in Tetrodon. Snout short and slender. Belly 

 rounded and prominent without any ventral spine. The dorsal fin 

 stands over the orbit, and has the usual triangular slip of mem- 

 brane behind it. The second dorsal and anal fins are highest 

 anteriorly, but with rounded summits and terminating close to 

 the caudal fin, which is rounded. Skin densely clothed with 

 hair-like spines. Colour bright grass-green, with seven inter- 

 rupted dark brown longitudinal stripes ; nine short bars radiate 

 from the orbit, and on the belly and flanks beneath the stripes 

 are many white specks. The rays of the caudal fin are grass- 

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