400 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



The lifiiglit of tlie body is contained four or five times in the 

 total length ; the length of the head three times and three-quarters. 

 Snout convex. The maxillary extends behind the vertical from 

 the posterior margin of the orbit. Black, each scale with a blue 

 spot ; an oblique, blue, longitudinal line on the dorsal and anal 

 fins. Caudal sometimes with a red band, parallel to the margins. 



Australia, from Mr. Macgillivray's collection 



216. Plesiops Bleekeri, Gunth. 



Gunth. Cat. III., p. 364, and Journ. Mus. Godeff. Heft. VII., 

 p. 87, pi. 58, fig. A. 



D. 12/9. A. 3/18. P. 18. V. 1/4. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 5/19. 



Reddish or yellowish with four broad black bands. 

 Port Jackson (Macl. Mus.) 



Genus Trachinops, Gunth. 



Body compressed, elongate. Scales small not ciliated. Mouth 

 not protractile. Dorsal and anal fins long, the former with 

 fourteen, the latter with three spines. Teeth in the jaws, on the 

 vomer and palatine bones ; bones of the head not serrated. Five 

 branchiostegals ; gills three and a half. Pseudobranchiee ; the 

 gill membranes not united below the throat. 



Coasts of Australia. 



217. Trachinops toeniatus, Gunth. 



Gunth. Cat. III., p. 366.— Kner., Fishes Novara, p. 215, i^l. 8, f. 7. 



D. 14/16. A. 3/20. L. lat. 62. 



Back brownish-black, with a white band running on each sidp 

 of the base of the dorsal fin. 



New South Wales. 



