374 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF ATJSTEALIAN FISHES, 



another fainter band in front of it ; a white band on the cheek. 

 Eye yellow, encircled with brown. (Castelnau). 



Port Phillip and Tasmania. Length from fifteen to twenty 

 inches. 



157. HisTioPTERUS LABiosus, Grunth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 658, pi. 59. 



Richardsonia insignis, Casteln., Proc. Zool. Soc. Victoria!., p. 112. 



B. 6. D. 7/17. A. 2/11. 



The height of the body is somewhat less than the length of the 

 head, and one-third of the total (without the caudal). Upper 

 profile of the head concave, snout much produced, the eye being 

 entirely in the posterior half of the head. Mouth moderate, 

 lower jaw slightly the longer, lips and chin densely covered with 

 short papillae. The teeth are in bands en cardes, and most of 

 those on the sides are obtuse and molar-like. Scales on the cheeks 

 hidden below the skin. Pr8eoj)erculum with the hind margin 

 concave and the angle projecting ; that and the lower limb 

 indistinctly denticulated. Opercles scaleless. Scales very small ; 

 the fourth dorsal spine the longest. Caudal fin emarginate with 

 the angles pointed. Brown, with indistinct, blackish, longitudinal 

 markings. Length of specimen twenty-five inches. 



South Australia, Melbourne, and Tasmania. 



Genus Lobotes, Cuv. 



Porm of body and vertical fins rather elevated. Eye rather 

 small. Snout blunt ; mouth oblique, the lower jaw the longer. 

 One dorsal with twelve spines, the anal with three. Caudal fin 

 rounded. No canine teeth. Preeoperculum denticulated; 

 operculum with obtuse points. Scales moderate, ctenoid. Six 

 branchiostegals. Air bladder simple, pyloric appendages few. 

 Pseudobranchiae developed. 



Pound in every sea. 



