372 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTKALIAN FISHES, 



stronger, but scarcely longer than the third. Reddish-brown 

 (in spirits), with six bluish, darker-edged, parallel, longitudinal 

 bands ; the first from the nape to the soft dorsal, the second from 

 above the eye to the posterior third of the soft dorsal, the third 

 from the eye on and above the lateral line to the back of the tail, 

 the fourth from the eye below the lateral line to the middle of 

 the tail, the fifth from below the eye to the inferior part of the 

 caudal, the sixth from the mouth over the root of the pectoral to 

 the end of the anal fin. 



Australia (Gunther). 



Genus Hyperoglyphe, Eichards. 



Body oblong, compressed. Eye moderate. Snout blunt, cleft 

 of mouth oblique, with the upper jaw longest. Two dorsals, 

 scarcely united, the first much lower than the second with eight 

 short spines, anal fin with feeble spines. Preeorbital and pr?e- 

 operculum serrated, operculum spiniferous. Seven branchiostegals. 

 Villiform teeth in the jaws, without canines. Eoof of the mouth 

 with a deep longitudinal groove. Scales small, cycloid. Air 

 bladder simple, pyloric appendages in great number. 



An Australian genus. 



155. Hyperoglyphe porosa, Eichards. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 337. 



Liagramma porosa, Eich., Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Fishes, p. 26, 

 pi. 16, figs. 5, 6. 



B. 7. D. 8. 1/20. A. 3/16. L. lat. 95-100. 



The maxillary reaches to below the middle of the eye ; both 

 limbs of the pra3operculum ciliated ; caudal fin emarginate. 

 Brownish in spirits, the soft dorsal and anal fins with two series 

 of dark brown spots. 



Coasts of Australia. Five and a-half inches long. 



