398 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



The lower margin only of the prseopercnlum finely serrated. 

 The dorsal and anal fins are not falcate, the rays becoming 

 gradually shorter posteriorly. Uniform brownish black. 



Port Jackson. 



211. ScoRPis vmosA, All. & Macl. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 277, pi. 9, fig. 2. 

 Darnley Island (Che vert Exp.) 



Genus Atypus, Q-unth. 



Body compressed, oblong. Snout short. Mouth small. Dorsal 

 fin with eleven spines, anal with three, the soft i)ortions of both 

 covered with scales. Scales rather small, ctenoid. Villiform 

 teeth in the jaws and on the vomer, none on the palatine bones. 

 Prseoperculum denticulated. Branchiostegals seven. Air-bladder 

 bifurcate anteriorly and posteriorly. 



Australian Seas. 



212. Atypus strigatus, Gunth. 

 Gunth, Cat. II., p. 64. 



Atypichthys strigatus, Casteln., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, III., 



p. 375. 



D. 11/15-16. A. 3/15-16. L. lat. 70-75. L. transv. 11/26. 



Csec. pylor. 11. 



Silvery with five or six brown parallel, longitudinal bands. 



Port Jackson. Swan Eiver. 



Genus Toxotes, Cuv. 

 Body compressed, oblong ; snout rather produced, with the 

 lower jaw longest; eye of moderate size. One dorsal fin with 

 five spines, situated on the posterior part of the back, the soft 

 portion and the anal fin scaly. Villiform teeth in the jaws, on 

 the vomer and the palatine bones. Scales of moderate size, 



