396 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIA:?^ FISHES, 



D. 11/16. A. 4/14. Ofec. pylor. 20. Vert. 11/12. 



The widtli betweeu tlie eyes is twice and a-third in tlie length, 

 of the head ; the length of the fourth dorsal spine is twice and 

 a-half in the height of the bod3^ Praeorbital with the lower 

 posterior angle denticulated. Body and vertical fins spotted 

 with brown. 



Port Jackson, Brisbane, Cape York. 



206. SCATOFAGUS TETRACANTIIUS, LaCOp. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 60. 

 D. 11/10. A. 4/14. 



Brownish with five dark vertical bands. 

 Port Darwin. 



207. ScATOPiiAGus MULTiFASCiATUs, Eicliards. 



Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Fishes, p. 57, pi. 35, f. 4-6.— Gunth. Cat. 

 Fishes II., p. 60. 



D. 12/17. A. 4/16. 



The width between the eyes is twice and two-thirds in the 

 length of the head ; the third dorsal spine is the longest, and is 

 twice and one third in the height of the body. Prroorbital with 

 the lower posterior angle minutely serrated. Back with about 

 twelve narrow vertical bands, between which are others still 

 narrower and shorter. 



Genus Drepaxe, Cuv. & Yal. 

 Body much compressed and elevated. Snout short with the 

 upper profile parabolic. Dorsal fin deeply emarginate with eight 

 spines. Pectorals elongate, falciform. Anal spines three. No 

 preeopercular spine. 



Indian and Australian Seas. 



