352 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



serrature. Mouth, oblique, tlie lower jaw longest. Eye moderate. 

 Pyloric appendages in small number; air bladder with, two narrow 

 processes in front to the base of the skull. 



East Indian Seas. 



113. Odoxtoxectes erythrogaster, Cuv. & Yal. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes, Yol. I., p. 265. 



D. 10/15. A. 3/11. L. lat. 53. L. transv. 7/13. Yert. 10/4. 

 Caec. pylor. 5. 

 Height three times and a-half in the total length ; the length 

 of the head four-times ; snout equal to the diameter of the eye, 

 and one-fourth of the length of the head. The maxillary reaches 

 beyond the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye ; pr^e- 

 operculum rounded at the angle. The spines of the fins slender 

 and flexible, the fourth of the dorsal longest. Tail deeply forked, 

 the second and third anal spines nearly equal. Above bluish- 

 green ; belly rose-coloured. 



Eitzroy Island (Chevert Exp.) 



Genus Oligorus, Gunther. 



Seven branchiostegals. All the teeth villiform without canines, 

 teeth, on the palatine bones, tongue smooth. One dorsal fin with 

 eleven spines, the anal with three. Operculum with one point, 

 preeoperculum with a single smooth or obtusely denticulated 

 ridge. Scales small. The number of pyloric appendages small. 



Australian Elvers. 



114. Oligorus macquariexsis, Cuv. & Yal. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes, Yol. I., p. 251. 



The Cof? of the Colonists. JTooIcoohil oi the M-urrumbidgee nsLtives. 



D. 11/14-16. A. 3/12. Csec. pylor. 3. 



The height of the body is four times and three-quarters in the 

 total length, the length of the head three and a-half ; the diameter 



