394 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



201. Hexiochus macrolefidotus, Ciiv. & Yal. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 39.— Bleek Atl. lelith. Clurtod., pi. 5, f . 1 . 



D. 11/24. A. 3/17. L. lat. 48. L. transv. 10/22. Ca3c. pylor. 6. 



Yert. 10/14. 



The fourth dorsal spine exceedingly elongate. A small 

 protuberance above each orbit, none on the neck. The upper 

 surface of the snout and a band between the orbits black. Body 

 with two broad black bands, the anterior from the first four 

 dorsal spines, touching the hind-margin of the operculum, across 

 the root of the pectorals to the belly, including the ventrals, 

 which are deep black ; the posterior band from the fifth, sixth, 

 and seventh dorsal spines descending obliquely backwards, and 

 occupying the posterior half of the anal fin ; the anterior half is 

 black- edged. 



Port Darwin. Port Essington. 



202. Heniochus varius, Cuv. & Yal. 



Gunther, Cat. Pishes II., p. 41. — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Chsetod., 



pi. 3, fig. 2. 



D. 11/23. A. 3/17. L. lat. 53. 



A protuberance above each orbit, conical and horn-like in 

 adult specimens, scarcely visible in young ones ; a third, obtusely 

 conical, on the nape of the neck. A black band from the origin 

 of the dorsal fin, occupying the whole head to the proeopercular 

 margins ; the second black band nearly entirely suppressing the 

 ground colour from the third to the seventh dorsal spines, to the 

 belly, and extending from the root of the pectorals and ventrals 

 to the end of the anal, which like the ventrals is entirely black. 



Cape York. (Castelnau, Ees. Fishes of Aust., p. 15.) 



Genus Holacanthus. 

 Differs from CItcBfodonm having a strong spine pointing back- 

 wards at the angle of the prrcoperculum. 

 All tropical Seas. 



