404 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Height of body four times and a-half in the length without 

 the caudal fin, the head three times and one-third in the same ; 

 eye three times and a-third in the length of the head ; teeth large 

 and numerous on the vomer and palatine bones ; the height of 

 the spinous dorsal less than two-thirds of that of the body. Caudal 

 fin strongly forked. Body pink with the upper parts purple, 

 head above olive ; the belly silvery ; on each side a broad gold 

 band ; fins immaculate, the dorsal, caudal and pectoral fins are 

 olive-yellow, the ventrals flesh-colour ; the barbels are long. 



Cape York. Specimen five and a-half inches long. 



Genus Mulloides, Bleek. 



Teeth in both jaws in several series, none on the vomer or 

 palatine bones. 



All tropical seas. 



224. Mulloides flavolineatus, Cuv. & Yal. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes I., p. 403.— Bleek. Atl. Iclith. Mull., pi. 4, f . 3. 



D. 7. 1/8. A. 8. L. lat, 35-36. L. transv. 2/5-6. Crec. 

 I)ylor. 18. Yert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is five times and a-third in the total 

 length ; the space between the eyes is once and a-half in the 

 length of the snout, and flat ; the barbels reach to the vertical 

 from the angle of tiie praeoperculum ; the spinous dorsal is nearly 

 as high as the bod3\ A broad citrine baud from the eye to the 

 tail ; yellow streaks on the tail ; fins immaculate. 



New Holland (Kner. Yoy. of Novara). 



Genus Upeneus, Cuv. & Yal. 

 The teeth in both jaws in a single series, none on the palate. 

 All tropical seas. 



