344 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FSIHES, 



This is tlie most common Port Jackson species and is without 

 doubt the true A. fasciatus, White, but I doubt its identity with 

 A. Arouhiensis, Hombr. and Jacquin, A. endeka-tcenia, Bleek., 

 and even with the A. fasciatus, Gunth., Journ. Mus., Godeff., 

 Fish, Sud. Sea, Heft I., tab. 20 a. b. 



88. Apogox Cookii, n. sp. 



D. 7. 1/8. A. 2/8. L. lat. 35. 



. Height nearly one-third of length without tail ; space between 

 the eyes flat, and nearly equal to the diameter of the orbit. 

 Prseoperculum more prominently rounded than in A. fasciatus. 

 Colour yellowish, in spirits, with four or five very broad, longi- 

 tudinal brown bands, ]AsiQ,Qdi di^'m A. fasciatus, but terminating 

 in a somewhat round, brown patch at the root of the tail. 



Endeavour Eiverand Darnley Island. Length three inches. 



89. Apogon YiCTORiiE, Gunth. 

 Cat. Fishes, Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 243. 



D. 7. 1/9. A. 2/8. L. lat. 24. L. transv. 2/6-7. 



Yellowish-olive (in a dried state) with four darker longitudinal 

 bands on each side ; root of the pectoral deep black, pectoral 

 yellow. All the outer edge of the prseoperculum denticulated, 

 the inner entire. 



Victoria Eiver. Length three inches and nine lines. 



90. Apogon quadrifasciatus, Val. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 239. Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Perc, pi. 57, f. 1. 



Caudal fin notched. Whitish (in spirits) : on each side two 

 parallel, brown, longitudinal bands ; fins yellowish ; the upper 

 half of the anterior dorsal more or less intense black. 



North Australia (Macgillivray) . 



