402 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Family TV. MULLID^. 



Bodj' elongate, slightly compressed, covered in'fh large scales. 

 Profile of head more or less parabolic ; Injal apparatus with two 

 long harhels. Lateral line continuous . xMoutli small. E^-e lateral 

 of moderate size. Fourhranehiostegals; pseudobranchipo. Dentition 

 feeble. Two dorsal fins remote from each other ; anal similar to 

 second dorsal. Stomach syphonal. 



Genus Upeneoides, Bleek. 

 Teeth in both jaws, on the vomer and palatine bones. 

 Indian and Australian Seas. 



219. Upexeoides vittatus, Linn. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 397.— Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Mull., pi. 2, f. 3. 



D. 8. 1/8. A. 7. L. lat. 39. L. transv. 3/6. 



The length of the head is four times and one-fifth in the total ; 

 the barbels reach to the vertical from the angle of the prse- 

 operculum ; the height of the spinous dorsal is four-fifths of that 

 of the body. Body with two or three longitudinal bands, shining 

 golden ; the spinous dorsal with the top black, and with one or 

 two blackish bands ; the upper lobe of the caudal with three or 

 four, the lower with two or three, oblique, black bands. 



Endeavour River (Macl. Mus.) 



220. Upexeoides teagula, Eichards. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 398.— Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Mull., pi. 2, f. 2. 



D. 8. 1/8. A. 7. L. lat. 30. L. transv. 2/5. 



The length of the head is four times and three-fourths in the total 

 length ; the barbels do not reach to the vertical from the posterior 

 margin of the precoperculum. The height of the spinous dorsal 

 is three-quarters of that of the hodiy. Vomerine teeth in two 

 lateral strips. Head, body, and anal, pectoral and ventral fins 

 sparingly and irregularly spotted with brownish; a brown 



