BY W. MACLEAY, P.L.S. 385 



about one-fourth, of tlie total length. The diameter of the eye is 

 shorter than the snout, and the distance between the eyes one- 

 fourth of the length of the head. Caudal fin forked, with acute 

 lobes. The spines of the fins feeble, the second of the anal one 

 half of the third. Scales of prceoperculum in six series. A broad 

 brownish band from the snout through the eye to the upper half 

 of the root of the tail. 



Western and North. Western Coasts. 



182. Pentapus setosus, Bleek. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 382.— Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Pare, pi. 46, f. 1. 



D. 10/9. A. 3/7. L. lat. 60. Ctec. pylor. 5. Yert. 10/13. 



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

 four times and three-fourths in the total length ; the diameter of 

 the eye is three times and a-half in the length of the head. The 

 middle spines of the dorsal fin are the longest ; the first ventral 

 ray is produced into a filament which reaches the anal ; the third 

 anal spine is intermediate in length between the second spine and 

 the first ray. The upper lobe of the caudal produced into a long 

 filament. A blue and yellow band from the muzzle through the 

 eye to the operculum ; a brown blue-edged spot at the root of 

 the caudal ; dorsal fin with the upper margin yellow. 



North Coast. Port Jackson (Macl. Mus.) 



183. Pentapus paradiseus, Gunth. 



Cat. Fishes I., p. 383, pi. 24, fig. a. 



D. 10/9. A. 3/7. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 5/16. 



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

 one-fourth of the total length (without caudal filament). The 

 diameter of the eye is three times and three-quarters in the length 

 of the head. Middle spines of dorsal fin longest ; the first ray 

 of the ventral sometimes prolonged into a filament, which does 

 not reach the vent ; the third anal spine intermediate in length 



