BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 391 



Count Oastelnau suggests that Chcetodon strigatus, should be 

 placed in the same genus as this species. 



Genus Chelmo, Cuv. 



Body much compressed and elevated ; one dorsal fin with nine 

 or more spines, none elongate. Muzzle produced into a long 

 cylindrical tube, with a small anterior cleft of the mouth. No 

 teeth on the palate, prceoperculum without spine. Scales moderate 

 or small. 



Indian and Australian Seas. 



195. Chelmo rostratus, Cuv. & Val. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 36.— Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Ch^t., pi. 7, f . 2. 



D. 9/30. A. 3/21. L. lat. 47. L. transv. 9/20. Vert. 10/14. 



The length of the snout from the eye is one-half the entire 

 length of the head. Head and body with five brownish cross- 

 bands, edged with brown and white, a round, black, white-edged 

 spot in the middle of the soft dorsal, within the fourth cross 

 band, the fifth band black round the tail. 



North-west Coast, Port Essington, Port Darwin and Cape York. 



196. Chelmo marginalis, Eichards. 



Ann. Nat. Hist. 1842, X., p. 29.— Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 36. 



D. 9/30. A. 3/21. L. lat. 50. L. transv. 9/22. C®c. pylor. 5. 

 Vert. 10/14. 



Length of snout half that of the head. Head and body with 

 four brownish cross-bands, edged with brown and white ; some- 

 times an indistinct blackish spot in the middle of the soft dorsal, 

 within the third cross-band, the fourth band round the tail. 



West Australia. Swan Piver. 



I find that the species mentioned by me in "The Fishes of 

 Port Darwin " (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 352) as 

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