362 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



is a little more than tlie space between the eyes. Preeoperculiim 

 serrated, with very strong teeth at the angle ; operculum with 

 two spines, the lower elongate and strong. Grreenish-grey, with 

 three straight, brown, longitudinal bands, the inferior extending 

 from the eye to the tail ; the spinous dorsal fin blackish between 

 the third and eighth spines ; two oblique blackish bands on each 

 lobe of the tail. 

 Torres Straits. 



132. Therapon Cuyieri, Bleek. 

 Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 282. Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Perc, pi. 37, f. 2. 

 D. 12/10. A. 3/10. L. lat. 66. L. trausv. 12/23. Ctec. pylor. 6. 

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

 length of head four and a-half times ; the diameter of the eye 

 nearly five times in the length of the head, and one and three- 

 quarters in that of the snout. PrEeoperculum finely and equally 

 serrated ; opercular spines feeble. Dorsal fin scarcely notched, 

 with slender spines, the fifth and sixth longest ; anal spines feeble. 

 Caudal very slightly emarginate. Four, five or six longitudinal 

 bands. Fins immaculate. 



Port Jackson ; East and North Coasts. 



133. TnERArox percoides, Gunth. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd Series, Yol. XIV., p. 374. 



D. 13/9. A. 3/8. L. lat. 39. L. transv. 7/13. 



Height of body twice and a-half in the length, without caudal ; 

 the length of the head twice and one-third. Upper surface of 

 head rather flat and scaleless; snout ecj^ual in length to the 

 diameter of the eye, and a little longer than the width of the 

 interorbital space. Mouth small, the maxillary scarcely reaching 

 to below the anterior margin of the orbit. Pra3orbital narrowed 

 posteriorly and indistinctly serrated, j)i'^^P6rculum equally 

 serrated and obtusely rounded ; operculum with two points, the 



