BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 399 



cycloid. Seven branchiostegals ; air-bladder simple ; pyloric 

 appendages in moderate number. 



Indian and Australian Seas. 



213. ToxoTES JACULATOR, Cuv. & Val. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 67.— Bleek. Atl. Icbth. Chsetod., pi. 1, 



fig. 4. 



U. 5/11-13. A. 3/15-17. L. lat. 28. L. transv. 3-4/7-8 Csec- 



pylor. 7-9. Vert. 10/14. 



The length of the snout equals the width of the space between 

 the eyes. Greenish with broad darker bands or spots across the 

 back. 



Port Darwin, Endeavour Eiver. 



214. ToxoTES CARPENTARiENSis, Casteln. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. III., p. 47. 



Norman Eiver. Gulf of Carpentaria. 



Family III. NANDIDiE. 

 Perciform Fishes, with an interrupted lateral line. 



Genus Plesiops, Cuv. 



Body compressed, oblong. Scales moderate. Mouth some- 

 what protractile. Dorsal fin with eleven or twelve spines, anal 

 with three. Ventral fin with four rays ; the first elongate and 

 bifid. Small teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and palatine bones. 

 None of the bones of the head serrated. Six branchiostegals ; four 

 gills, pseudobranchise ; an air-bladder j pyloric appendages none. 



Indian and Australian Seas. 



215. Plesiops c^ruleo-lineatus, Rupp. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes, III., p. 363. 



D. 11-12/7. A. 3/8. V. 1/4. L. lat. 23. 

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