368 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



144. Helotes sexlixeatus, Cuv. & Yal. 



Guntli. Cat. Fishes I., p. 285. 



D. 12/10. A. 3/10. L. lat. 110. L. transv. 35. Cfec. pylor. 15. 



Yert. 10/15. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is four 

 and a-half times in the total. Teeth distinctly lobed. Operculum 

 with two short spines, the lower rather prominent ; preeoperculum 

 rounded, denticulated ; the fifth and sixth dorsal spine longest. 

 Six blackish-brown longitudinal bands on each side. 



North and East Coasts. Port Darwin. 



145. Helotes octolineatus, Jenyns. 



Gunth. Cat. I., p, 285. Voy. " Beagle," p. 18. 



D. 12/9. A. 3/7. 



The height of the body is equal to the length of the head and is 

 four and a-half times in the total length; jaws equal. Teeth 

 distinctly' three-pointed. Operculum with two spines — the lower 

 one prominent. Light blackish-brown longitudinal bands on 

 each side. 



King Greorge's Sound. West Australia. 



Group Pristipomina. 

 Genus Agenor, Casteln. 



Body high, compressed. Teeth villiform in the jaws, a series 

 of acute conical teeth on the vomer and palatines ; no molars ; 

 cheeks and opercles scaly. Vertical fins in great part covered with 

 scales ; dorsal fin not notched, of ten spines. Scales rather small. 



Australia. 



146. Agexor modestus, Casteln. 

 Pro.c. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. III., p. 371. 

 Port Jackson. 



