380 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



173. Gerres Melbournensis, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Victoria, Vol. I., p. 158. 



D. 9/16. A. 3/17. L. lat. 37-38. 



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

 large, contained twice and two-thirds in the length of the head ; 

 profile over the eye and snout very convex ; the length of the 

 dorsal spines and rays slightly increase as they go backwards ; 

 caudal fin forked ; anal with the third spine longest, and the 

 rays decreasing gradual^ in length from the first ; pectorals 

 shorter than the head, the third ray longest. General colour 

 silvery, the upper parts are blue, and the sides have a copper 

 tinge ; there are faint longitudinal lines due to the centre of each 

 scale being darker ; the spinous dorsal is purple, and the soft, 

 yellow ; the caudal also yellow ; and the anal, pectorals, and 

 ventrals pink. Eye yellow, the pupil rather angular. 



Melbourne, in the month of July. 



I have never seen this Fish, and doubt very much its being 

 a Gerres. 



Genus Gerreomorpha, All. & Macl. 

 Characters of Gerres, but with ten dorsal spines. 



174. Gerreomorpha rostrata. All. & Macl. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 274, pi. 8, fig. 3. 

 Torres Straits. 



Genus Scolopsis, Cuv. 



Form oblong. Eye moderate. Snout moderate, with the cleft 

 of the mouth nearly horizoatal. One dorsal with ten spines, 

 anal with three ; tail more or less forked. Infraorbital arch 

 with a spine directed backwards. Praeoperculum generally 

 denticulated; operculum with an indistinct spine. Scales 



